Jan O'Highway

BONES

In 2007 Osteopath Graeme Pollard commissioned a series of digital images based on human bones for his practice rooms in Torquay, Devon, UK.

A doctor friend had kept a skeleton, affectionately nicknamed ‘Hilda’, from the days of his medical training, and it was a wonderful privilege to handle and photograph these beautiful structures.

I wrote an article some time later about this for MARKINGS literary magazine, Issue 29, edited by John Hudson and Chrys Salt.

 

Contact sheet with variations

 

Rib bones

 

Vertebrae

 

Suture

 

Foot and hand