Between 2004 and 2019, Nico Claux handled, moved and prepared thousands of cadavers whilst working as a morgue technician in several French hospitals. Formerly known as “deadhouses”, morgues are often considered as forbidden zones, and what goes on behind their closed doors is kept away from the eyes of the general public. Illustrated with more than 170 color stills compiling 15 years of death photography, this book offers an insider’s look at how it feels to work in a mortuary.
Staring at Death - The Morgues
also contains never before published photographs of medical oddities preserved in formaldehyde in the depths of storage units only accessible to death workers, medical examiners and morticians. This one-of-its-kind visual experience is an essential read for the esthetes of the macabre.
The collector's edition of Staring at Death - The Morgues
is
signed and stamped with a print of the thumb with the author's blood.
