Roadkill Family Album is an ongoing project by the artist Nigel Grimmer begun in 2000. Each photograph in the series depicts a member of Grimmer’s family or a close friend lying, apparently dead, by the side of a road wearing the mask of an animal. Although explicitly staged events, these images conjure up feelings of abandonment and sorrow. The animals seem to have given up the will to live, but the underlying human presence creates an ominous tension. Grimmer adds at least one image to the series each year; the current s...