Common Grave is a series of urban landscape photographs made in Mexico City's common grave. The work explores mortality, and the coexistence of life and death.

Established in 1905, the common grave functions as a mass burial site for corpses of the indigent and unidentified. Centrally located within the metropolis, it is part of the Panteón Civil de Dolores, the city's largest cemetery. Concrete walls separate the two spaces, however, and public access to the fosa común is prohibited.

Trees, flora, wildflowers--the landscape around the common grave is a harmonious composition of vegetation in various stages of the life cycle. Coupled with the presence of the mass graves--both active and inactive--the place served as a metaphorical laboratory to further investigate notions about loss and death, as well as the persistence of life.

Common Grave completes a series of related bodies of work from Mexico, where I lived between 2002 and 2005.