Mark Ulyseas – Life in Death

Profile Mark Ulyseas Live Encounters Magazine April 2017Download PDF Here

Life in Death, photographs by Mark Ulyseas

Ulyseas is founder and editor of Live Encounters Magazine and Live Encounters Poetry & Writing. He is the author of three books: RAINY – My friend & Philosopher, Seductive Avatars of Maya – Anthology of Dystopian Lives and In Gethsemane: Transcripts of a Journey. www.amazon.com


Why do we grief so much when confronted with death? Why are we repulsed by the sight of a lifeless body? Is this a reflex action towards our own fear of the unknown? Or is there a hint of selfishness lurking beneath that grief because we are more concerned about our feelings?

The following are photographs celebrating the life that exists in death, a beauty that is, perhaps for many, outside the realm of understanding.


Rat in the Rain © Mark Ulyseas
It had rained all night. In the morning, I found this mouse on the wet grass. A few ants had arrived to check out the offering. A day later nothing remained. Bali, Indonesia

An eel that had succumbed to the rip tide lying curled over a coconut. Bali, Indonesia © Mark Ulyseas
An eel that had succumbed to the rip tide lying curled over a coconut. Bali, Indonesia

An hour before sunset while walking along the Mekong riverbank I saw this drowned chicken float by. It moved gracefully like a ballerina. Laos PDR. © Mark Ulyseas
An hour before sunset while walking along the Mekong riverbank I saw this drowned chicken float by. It moved gracefully like a ballerina. Laos PDR.

Queen Parrot fish that was caught in a fisherman’s net, discarded on the beach. Bali, Indonesia © Mark Ulyseas
Queen Parrot fish that was caught in a fisherman’s net, discarded on the beach. Bali, Indonesia

Where does a butterfly go when it rains? Goa,  India.
Where does a butterfly go when it rains? Goa, India.

A jellyfish brought in by the tide and now just debris on the beach. Bali, Indonesia. © Mark Ulyseas
A jellyfish brought in by the tide and now just debris on the beach. Bali, Indonesia.

The silhouette of a roadkill - a rat that tried to cross the road, Lao PDR. © Mark Ulyseas
The silhouette of a roadkill – a rat that tried to cross the road, Lao PDR.

 © Mark Ulyseas

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