In a poetic yet disturbing and seductive way, Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru creates scenes of sophisticated violence and enchanting horror. 

Landscapes with a Corpse is the title of his project, where he invited actresses and models to reveal their fantasies about a perfect death: above all he asked them which designer clothes they would like to wear when they died. The resulting photos, show the crime scene (or that of natural death), but do not allude to something fatal and irreversible, instead they possess a kind of elegant and highly aesthetic ceremony.
Kaoru’s images have always had a film-like structure: long shots with bodies that seem to melt into the setting, alternate with others that show close-ups of the wide-open eyes of the victims. There is never a real story, only clues, suspicions, allusions: the unlocking of a tale whose mystery will never be revealed.