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the weight, while we were sleeping

The painter Chaim Soutine’s genius peaks in the meat pictures, made after his return to Paris, in 1921. He bought the subjects from slaughterhouses and held on to them for so long that, according to an oft-told tale, their rotting stench drove his neighbors to call the police. He pleaded artistic necessity and—all hail the French—managed a compromise by agreeing to abate the smell with formaldehyde. Unfortunately, the chemical dulled the meat’s colors, which Soutine remedied by regularly dousing the carcasses with fresh blood.

Humans in Nature: The Photography of Tamara Dean

Tamara Dean is an Australian photographer who carefully poses individuals in wild surroundings. She feels with real urgency that we must reconnect with nature.  See more of Tamara Dean’s photography on Instagram. Thanks  Booooooom.

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