(Image: Tim Flach)
This 85-day-old fetus of a thoroughbred horse did not survive because its mother succumbed to colic and died a quarter of the way through her pregnancy. London-based photographer Tim Flach came across the fetus, preserved in a jar of formalin, on a table in a veterinary surgery and took it back to his studio to shoot. This close-up photograph (see photo, right) of the fetus’s features, from the whisker holes and upturned lips to the delicate hooves and wrinkles on its stomach, provides an arrestingly intimate view.
Flach’s aim…
