Simple as no follow the rules

That's the case of Joel-Peter Witkin, who was born in New York in 1938.
This American photographer claims that his vision and sensibility were initiated by an episode he witnessed when he was just a small child, a car accident that occurred in front of his house in which a little girl was decapitated.
His techniques include scratching the negative, bleaching or toning the print, and using a hands-in-the-chemicals printing technique.
Because of the transgressive nature of the contents of his pictures, his works have been labeled exploitative and have sometimes shocked public opinion.