

After studying and photographing the movements of a corpse over 17 months, Alyson Wilson said that she found humans do not exactly rest in peace.



To carry out her unusual form of people watching, Ms Wilson took the three-hour flight from Cairns to Sydney every month to check on the progress of a cadaver.

Her subject was one of 70 bodies stored at the Southern Hemisphere's only "body farm", which sits at a secret bushland location on the outskirts of Australia's largest city.






A better understanding of post-mortem movement could also help to reduce the incorrect cause of death or misinterpretation of a crime scene.

"They'll map a crime scene, they'll map the victim's body position, they'll map any physical evidence which is found, and they can understand the cause of death."




"Once I observed a movement in a previous study, I started researching, and couldn't find anywhere in the world that looks at quantifying the movement, so I thought OK, I'm going to do this."