Intimate X-Ray Portraits

Using an x-ray machine and CT scanner, Japanese artists Ayako Kanda and Mayuka Hayashi of Musashino Art University captured couples in intimate poses. What makes their images unique is that all you can see are the skeletons. Stripped are the romantic or erotic elements of human interaction: skin, facial expressions, hair, and clothing. Without these, you are left to fill in the holes: the cavernous black space encompassing these ghostly white figures. Though they may look like the rudimentary stick-figure drawing equivalent of an ethereal photograph, they are eerily beautiful.
The series was displayed in large-scale print format (below) and won the 2013 Mitsubishi Junior Chemical Designer award.  
photos © Ayako Kanda and Mayuka Hayashi

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