The last image ǀ Photography and death

living and dying,  loving and letting go- images, films, books and music about death tap into our fears about the finiteness of existence and our own mortality. Yet since its invention in 1839, photography, its visual strategies have grappled with death like no other medium. Much of this links to photography’s unique traits: photographs are seen as cutting across both space and time to capture a moment, and are also considered direct records of reality.

Curated by Felix Hoffmann, the exhibition The Last Image. Photography and Death presents a survey unprecedented in its scale and diversity of over 400 photographic works on death from the dawn of photography to the present day. Fort the first time, an extensive selection of artistic work will be placed alongside numerous personal, journalistic, scientific and studio photographs.