Neal Auch has spent his artistic career using photography and prose to explore the unlikely beauty of death, decay, and ruin. His imagery draws considerably from the iconography and philosophy of 17th-century Dutch still life paintings, and his works have been exhibited in galleries and featured in fine art books, alongside the works of prominent figures in the transgressive art community, including Clive Barker and Andres Serrano. Neal holds a PhD in theoretical physics from McGill University and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with his spouse, child, and bloated collection of death things.