Francois Robertwas at an auction in the mid 1990s and took home three lockers.
Robert realized that his skeleton was limited: it was wired together for display.
He traded his skeleton for a disarticulated human skeleton online - a box containing 206 separate bones.
He calls the resulting images “Stop the Violence.”
Each shot takes a full day to set up.
The results are beautiful and haunting.
Robert confesses that more than anything else he is motivated by the fear of death.
“The bones are something left behind, a form of memory,” he says.
“I take a stab at treat that person on my studio floor with respect.”
