PETER TIMAR is a Hungarian photographer who once decided to expose the indecency of Hungarian funerals. He photographed the process of autopsy, embalming and cremation at the Budapest Funeral Institute from 1980-1983, and captured images of the decidedly irreverent way that human corpses were treated. Piled atop one another, hanging limply from morgue tables and wooden caskets, awaiting their fate of either cremation or public display. Almost as if they had no soul left in them to pay tribute to. The Mucsarnok gallery in Budapest exhibited Grief in 1983, but the exhibition was banned within a few days of it opening. If you’re shy or triggered by images of death and decay (wrong site, tbh) then don’t look at this wonderful gallery of Peter Timar’s banned Grief series below…
