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Vanitas

Vanitas

Mortality has always been a preoccupation for still life painters and photographers.  Fruit, flowers, insects, smoke, bubbles and of course the skull are all potent symbols of the transience of life.

In the 17thcentury the plague and religious wars preoccupied the population, today we rightly fear climate change which could be vastly more devastating.

 

 

All images © Kevin Best

 

 

 

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