Saved: Objects of the Dead is a decade-long collaborative project by artist Jody Servon and author Lorene Delany-Ullman. In an increasingly unstable world, we often come together in grief seeking connection, even with strangers, to acknowledge our human suffering. In Saved: Objects of the Dead, Servon and Delany-Ullman explore the universality of how objects embody the otherwise abstract emotions of loss and memory. Pairing photography and prose, Saved considers how memories of the dead become rooted in ordinary objects, and how those objects convey memories of the deceased to the living. 

Servon and Delany-Ullman are grateful to all who participated by lending their objects of the dead to be photographed and sharing their intimate, provocative, and sometimes embarrassing stories about themselves and their departed loved ones. Special acknowledgement to photographer Troy Tuttle who provided his expertise and companionship throughout years of image-making.

Work samples from the project and book follow.