In the online series the Murder Weapons Project, Ed James highlights a set of ten images that show the strange items people have used in real-life murders.
“I wanted each item to be unusually lit and out of context to mirror the way that the killers used them. The work should make people uneasy yet intrigued,” said the 43-year-old photographer on his website.
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James said the objects pictured are not the actual murder weapons that were used and instead he used “clean everyday objects as he thought that this would best illustrate their bizarre use.”
Although the subject is a dark one, James said he would like to think that the final images reflect the opposite of what the object was used for and began researching unconventional murders.
“I found an array of horrifying cases, but chose not to identify the names of the perpetrators and only used brief descriptions.”
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