Jōhatsu

• Photographer
  Ellen Kramer
• Technical Info
  Black And White, Digital Camera
• Photo Date
  203-2024

When I was young, a dear family member passed away in my presence. I noticed the liberation of the spirit and I felt that it was good, that death is an inseparable part of life. It became the first of a long series of end-of-life encounters. I myself was on the edge of life when death touched me for a moment. I entered a transitional world in a no man's land between life and death. In the series Jōhatsu, which literally means “evaporation”, I show this transitional world as I have experienced it and to which I sometimes long to return.