Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer, he was born in Brooklin, New York in September 1939. He's work was marked by a car accident that he saw when he was a child, in that accident he saw how a little girl was beheaded very close to him.

 

He admired the artist Gioto,because we can see it in he's work a small reference of the renacents art. In he's works is recurrent see themes like death, sex, corpes, people whit physical deformities, hermaphrodites, transexsual, trasgender and midgets.

 

In the treatment of the photography he came close to Painting, staining and crossing the image, giving to the picture visual properties of paiting. Most of he's work look back on Blible passages and famous painting, for that reason his work was be transgressive with traditional arts.

I like his work because it is really creepy ,and a love all the creepy things. I enjoy watching terror movies of all kinds, zombies, ghost, demonic possession, monsters, UFO and gore, and thist artist in some where make me enjoy the horror if his feels.