With over 1,000 portraits on tombstones captured, Kris Vervaeke's 'Ad Infinitum' series is magically eerie and nostalgically sad all the same time.
The photographer was able to capture a very moving sense of life in these human portraits etched in porcelain and affixed to hundreds of tombstones in Hong Kong. All black and white, the potently simple Ad Infinitum series of weathered portraits beautifully captures the idea of life and the memories of a life lived by all these anonymous people.
Even through the cold blank expressions and blurred faces, these portraits will have you transfixed and guessing what these people were like. What makes the series even more mesmerizing is that it almost gets you to forget that these people are no longer here.
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Weathered Tombstone Portraits
- Opportunity for innovative memorial services that incorporate personalized porcelain portraits on tombstones.
Sectors Adopting This
- Photography
- Opportunity for photographers to offer unique and emotionally impactful memorial photography services.
- Funeral Services
- Opportunity for funeral homes to offer customized tombstones with weathered portraits as a unique form of remembrance.
- Art and Design
- Opportunity for artists and designers to create custom porcelain portraits for tombstones, combining art and memorialization.
