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Ben
Putnam
Dead Things
This is a selection from an ongoing portfolio that documents animal road-kills that I encounter on walks I'm taking.
These creatures lives have been cut short because of humans desire to move faster than we can on our own.
When I first got my drivers license I saw animals in the road as fair game; targets even. I was an idiot; asshole really.
I feel badly about my behavior.
By photographing these once living creatures, by pausing my walk long enough to have a moment with them, to consider the loss of life, it's sort of an apology. An apology both to the individual creature I am looking at but also to all the creatures I have caused harm to.











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