[GODREKR]

Every evening TV-shows like CSI, Crossing Jordan or Quincy show legal medical experts at work and the field of forensics also have long since entered the German crime series. But the medical image of forensic medicine has only little in common with reality. In fact, only few people have realistic ideas of how things work in the autopsy hall or the forensic laboratories and what else belongs to the legal medical’s everyday life.

The photographer Patrik Budenz wanted to find out more. On the basis of the medial image, he accompanied the forensic medicals during their work at the site of crime, in the section room, in the laboratory and at their desk. As a photographer he proceeded as carefully as the medicals themselves. He exactly observed what happened and translated it into pictures, which precisely document the medical’s daily routine.

Patrik Budenz has deliberately renounced drastic effects. The work on the series nevertheless became a boundary experience for him, because a lot of what legal medicals are confronted with in their daily life lies far beyond most people’s imagination.

[**butterflylove**]

WOW! great post

[Mr.Goodbar]

Yummy.

[Rasputin007]

I love the shots where all the investigators are smiling en talking while opening a skull.

[Faline]

Love these pics

[Lee]

[Sharon]

Brilliant photos, thanks for posting

I used to be a mortician and carried out post-mortem dissections and I obviously know fine well the realities of it. TV depictions are just RIDICULOUS but guess showing the real deal would be a bit disturbing for people - and would make it all be rated 18 and have to be shown very late at night.

[Airbornemama]

I got so caught up in trying to find where you had "hidden" your name in each picture,that I forgot too look at the picture's!!! Nice set of photo's by the way!!

[justthefacts]

This is where DR rocks.

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