Though these images capture animals at varying levels of death and decay, Kansas-born photographer Emma Kisiel has managed to evoke beauty and peace in what would normally be unsightly roadkill
I had the great pleasure of discovering Emma Kisiel’s work while in Colorado. She shared her touching and beautiful project, At Rest, during portfolio reviews at the Center of Fine Art Photography, just weeks before she was about to open her BFA Thesis Ex
Even as a child, Emma was drawn to dead birds that would appear on her front lawn and roadkill she spotted while walking to the bus stop. She realized that the immobility and lifelessness of these animals allowed her an intimacy that she couldn’t achieve with a living wild animal.