PHOTOGRAPHY

Gut Cuts is a visual exploration of the beauty, fragility, and transience of the human body. Douglas Burgdorff’s images create a visual harmony between the skeletal remains at Cripta dei Cappuccini in Rome and two living subjects. The models — youthful, luminous, and unmistakably present — stand in quiet counterpoint to the ancient, carefully arranged bones. Their faces hold expressions as calm and saint-like as the monks themselves, yet their vitality hums just beneath the surface. The result is both haunting and deeply human: a meditation on mortality that radiates with history but is unquestionably contemporary, in Burgdorff’s colorful, bold style.

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Official Selection, International Photography Awards 2024

Mish is the first photobook by Douglas Burgdorff. This collection of atmospheric images brings together a striking variety of portraits, places, and creatures — all captured over the course of two decades. 

  Utilizing varied color, subject, setting, camera type, lighting, and time period, Burgdorff designed his book with purposeful juxtaposition to create a new meaning, new pattern, new theme, and new narrative. Portraiture collides with architectural photography, animals run alongside wildfires, and disaster is viewed hand-in-hand with beauty. 

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