Matt Hamon's best photograph: his daughter Lur feeding a beheaded deer

‘She was picking grass, putting it in a yogurt tub and feeding it to the deer, not yet understanding death’

Lur is my daughter. Her name means earth or homeland, the place where you’re from. She’s five now, but she was about three when I shot this. It was in the fall and that’s a deer I had harvested.

Wild game is the primary source of meat in my family. We live in rural Montana, on 11 acres in the forest. Typically, when we butcher a deer, a certain amount of the animal is left around before it’s taken to be composted. I’m not sure if Lur took the head out there to where we chop wood, but that’s where the image was shot. She was picking grass, putting it in a yogurt tub, and feeding it to the deer, not yet totally understanding death. It was around this time she started to ask questions. Are the animals asleep? Do they wake up?

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