James "la Smoothe" Patterson Jr The Travelers
Mary Caparitia Bush The Travelers
Nathalie Ames The Travelers
'Heyert's obsession with sleep and oblivion led her inevitably to photograph THE TRAVELERS, a series of large-scale color post-mortem portraits. Unlike most post-mortem photographs, Heyert presents the dead as she would the living, beautifully dressed against a black background with the traditional lighting of a formal portrait. First exhibited in a one-person show at the Edwynn Houk gallery in New York in 2005, the photographs stirred discussion and controversy. In a feature article about the works, the New York Times described them as a "peek below the surface at the vibrant, living face beneath the mask of death." Scalo Verlag published her book, THE TRAVELERS in March 2006. At the end of the year PHOTO EYE named THE TRAVELERS one of the best photography books of 2006.'
