Robert Shults has the following great, sometimes somewhat disturbing pictures of a body farm in Texas, the largest outdoor decomposition laboratory in the world. The images are hard in places and of course always creepy, but also wonderful in their detailed depiction of the banality and strange beauty of the decay of the human body.
San Marcos, Texas, thirty miles south of Austin, is the site of one of the most unique facilities in all of science: The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University, home to the world's largest outdoor human decomposition laboratory. In this idyllic hill country setting, a dauntless and magnanimous team of scientists studies even the most minute details of the post-mortem process, keeping a constant devoted vigil over their donors' bodies until they have returned almost entirely to the earth.
Faculty and graduate researchers develop and test new techniques for the identification and analysis of human remains, and train law enforcement professionals on proper recovery and investigative procedures.
They consult on open forensic cases, including the throngs of undocumented migrants who die each year attempting to cross the south Texas desert, and maintain one of the most extensive human skeletal reference collections in the nation, all the time focused on a singular mission: to give voice to the nameless and to bring home with dignity those who have been wronged by their fellow man.
(via hyperallergic)
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