Sarah Sudoff is a photographer who, at the age of seventeen, lost a friend to suicide. While visiting his home the day after the news, she witnessed a clean up crew steam cleaning the carpet in his bedroom. All physical traces of the past 24 hours had literally been wiped away.
Her latest series, entitled “At the Hour of Our Death,” takes a long look at Phillip Aries’ observation that “death’s invisibility enhances its terror”. Her photographs capture swatches of bedding, carpet and upholstery marked with the signs of the passing of human life.
In a short documentary, filmmakers Mark and Angela Walley capture Sudoff’s process as she attempts to give a proper viewing to things perhaps not often witnessed enough.
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some pieces here are like a kick to my gut, this is one of them…