Bone Ground is a photographic exhibition by documentary photographer Michael James Wright that narrates the journey of a multinational team of scientists and their research on the Guanajuato’s mummy collection. The photographs are an approach to the experience of the documentary essay process. Art at the service of science.

 

It includes radiological studies conducted on the mummies of Guanajuato, fieldwork by doctors Ronald Beckett and Gerald Conlogue, — founders of the Bioanthropology Research Institute and protagonists of the popular science series “The Mummy Roadshow” by National Geographic —, renowned mummy researchers around the world.

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Composed by four thematic cores: fissure, nature, fracture, and fissure, Bone Ground will bring us closer to understand the most important collection of natural mummies in Mexico and one of the most important ones in the world.