Lennart Nilsson’s Eulogy

The Swedish photojournalist Lennart Nilsson carried out the delicate and unsettling project of photographing human embryos and fetuses from pregnancies terminated for various medical reasons. These funerary portraits examine our relationship to life.

Foetus 20 weeks, 1965/2012 © Lennart Nilsson Perhaps photography had never gone to such an extreme, to the threshold of life and death, existence and nothingness, as it did in Lennart Nilsson’s work. His camera captured something utterly di...

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