Sigfús Eymundsson has been regarded as the pioneer of professional post-mortem photography in Iceland. His work includes thousands of glass plate photographs as well as those taken with modern techniques, documenting the deceased and their funerary processions. As the practice of handling and caring for the dead transferred from the responsibility of the family to that of the hospital staff, the style of photographs changed as well. It became customary for a hospital staff member to take a photograph of a deceased child for the grieving family. Most photographs of the deceased were taken of them up close lying down on a bed or chest and mainly consisted of children, teenagers, and some elderly persons. Eymundsson has multiple apprentices, but the practice was suspected to die out in these individuals as it posed an arduous task with great emotional strain.