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Both strands of my work explore how society remembers its dead. In both pieces I have zoned in on commemorations that have garnered criticism and questioned why this is so.
The 1st part of my project focuses on the memorial site MyDeathSpace – which posts links to deceased MySpace users’ pages. I was inspired by Dickens' Madame Defarge character who callously knitted by the guillotine to question why Mydeathspace could be construed as an inappropriate form of commemoration.
The 2nd strand of my work concerns the Necropolis Railway which ran for almost a century – the principal remit of the service being to transport bodies and mourners to the London Necropolis, at Brookwood, Surrey – then Europe’s biggest cemetery. I set about trying to emulate Victorian photographers who used the process to document the world around them. I traveled the line over and over, using a medium format camera to chronicle the journey.
