Slaughterhouse elegy

Selection of images taken at slaughterhouses. - I did not wish to make a documentary series or propagandistic images. Instead, I needed abstraction to contemplate about this otherwise hushed, yet everyday phenomenon: slaughtering – on whichever side or point of the story. Whosoever has killed a bug or witnessed any sort of autopsy may know some sort of shiver. Therefore the questions and connotations are not limited to issues of animal welfare and culinary preferences. Homo homoni lupus est would be just as relevant. While I do not wish to impose my interpretations on anyone, I uphold that the series has several layers of meanings, even ontological. May I just quote one reading from the essay by Miháhy Surányi, aesthete: „...this slaughterhouse danse macabre turns right in front of our eyes into the apotheosis of all fallen and vulnerable, of all sufferers. It is a plea, a visual prayer. Not for one, but for all of us. Of all beings on earth, only man is cursed or gifted with the acknowledgement of death. Tamás Schild's elegiac allegory is a means and reminder to come to a halt and practice from time to time mercy and compassion, lest we lose our humanity.” (45 prints of 80x120 cms, The full series also exists as a multimedia essay https://vimeo.com/312928551)