Georgia: Blood, Guts and Beauty in Tbilisi's Meat Markets

Tbilisi-based photographer Uta Beyer has a thing for pig carcasses and other assorted cuts of meat. A previous post on this blog featured her lovingly rendered photos of pig heads on display in Tbilisi's main meat market, but Beyer appears to have been so captivated by what she saw at the butcher's that day that she's started an ongoing project called "Flesh," a collection of meat-based still lifes. Here's how Beyer describes the project:

Animal still lifes are one of the oldest genres in art history.They touch upon questions of transience, mortality, and death, and are, at the same time, among the most masterful paintings, always with a clear focus on the aesthetic presentation of the depicted dead animals. This photo essay is a modern, photographic interpretation of the animal still lifes genre, an exploration into this sphere between beauty and death.

More of Beyer's wonderful work can be found here.