In In 1981, Joseph Paul Jernigan was sentenced to death for stabbing and shooting 75-year-old Edward Hale, who discovered him stealing a microwave oven. Jernigan spent 12 years in prison before his final plea for clemency was denied. His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center.
In 2011 two artist used light painting photography to put it back together. Art director Croix Gagnon and photographer Frank Schott used an animation of the 1871 slices of Jernigan’s body played back full screen on a laptop and the open shutter of a camera to create these ghostly images. Check out the animation and images below…
I think the concept is super cool but I almost feels like it glorifies a murderer… What do you think?
farid says
very cool..
darren says
morbid for sure. but conceptually very interesting stuff.