Murder 12:31 by Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott, 2011

Joseph Paul Jernigan (January 31, 1954 – August 5, 1993) was a Texas murderer who was executed by lethal injection at 12:31 a.m.

In 1981, Jernigan was sentenced to death for stabbing and shooting 75-year-old Edward Hale, who discovered him stealing a microwave oven. Jernigan spent 12 years in prison before his final plea for clemency was denied. His cadaver was sectioned and photographed for the Visible Human Project at the University of Colorado’s Health Sciences Center.

Photographers Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott used this data to create light paintings to recreate the story in ghostly way. Each image was created with a combination of night photography and long-exposure photographs of an animation of the cadaver section.

This animation represents the entire data set (1,871 slices) of the male cadaver from the Visible Human Project. The animation was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment. The resulting images are long-exposure “light paintings” of the entire cadaver. Variations in the movement of the computer during each exposure created differences in the shape of the body throughout the series.have a look to process on the photographers site. source: cpluv

Murder 12:31 by Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott, 2011

Murder 12:31 by Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott, 2011

Murder 12:31 by Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott, 2011