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Limousines & Hearses (Part One)




Plywood coffins arrive on privately owned trucks, rented for the day by the National Capital District Commission of Port Moresby, for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Members of the public hired by the National Capital District Commission, watch on as other people move bodies from the morgue on to trucks for the mass burial. Hospital staff handed out face masks to help obscure the smell of the rotten corpses. Due to the morgue being full to capacity, the bodies had been stored in refrigerated shipping containers, some for nearly two years. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Plywood coffins arrive on privately owned trucks, rented for the day by the National Capital District Commission of Port Moresby, for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Plywood coffins arrive on privately owned trucks, rented for the day by the National Capital District Commission of Port Moresby, for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012

Plywood coffins arrive on privately owned trucks, rented for the day by the National Capital District Commission of Port Moresby, for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Mortuary worker Joe prepares to move bodies from the temporary storage container into the delivered coffins. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Director of the Port Moresby morgue writes the name of each body (if the corpse has identification) on the lid of each coffin, as well as a cross, before the coffins are loaded on to trucks to be taken to Nine Mile Cemetery for burial. A new arrival to the morgue lies on a gurney in the open air, until space is created to refrigerate it. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Members of the public, hired by the National Capital District Commission, move bodies from the morgue on to trucks for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. Hospital staff handed out face masks to help obscure the smell of the rotten corpses. Due to the morgue being full to capacity, the bodies had been stored in refrigerated shipping containers, some for nearly two years. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012

Members of the public, hired by the National Capital District Commission, move bodies from the morgue on to trucks for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. Hospital staff handed out face masks to help obscure the smell of the rotten corpses. Due to the morgue being full to capacity, the bodies had been stored in refrigerated shipping containers, some for nearly two years. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
A man hired for the day by the National Capital District Commission loads bodies from the morgue on to trucks for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. Hospital staff handed out face masks to help obscure the smell of the rotten corpses. Due to the morgue being full to capacity, the bodies had been stored in refrigerated shipping containers, some for nearly two years. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Private trucks were hired from citizens to transport the bodies from the morgue to Nine Mile Cemetery. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012
Members of the public, hired by the National Capital District Commission, move bodies from the morgue on to trucks for the mass burial of unclaimed bodies from the Port Moresby General Hospital morgue. Hospital staff handed out face masks to help obscure the smell of the rotten corpses. Due to the morgue being full to capacity, the bodies had been stored in refrigerated shipping containers, some for nearly two years. (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, February 13, 2009). - all content © 2012

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