We are shielded from sadness and grief as children and the details of birth are often kept from us. But what does our often emotionally distanced Western approach to the two most universal moments reveal about us? 

 Vita et Mors is an ongoing photographic work breaking this distance, documenting spaces that face the basis of life in its fragility head-on. Vita et Mors stems from a questioning of our avoidance towards these ubiqutous experiences until it’s our turn, attempting to go a step closer.