Once an animal is skinned, the fat needs to be removed and the skin has to be salted. Yum!

This is just a handful of bear skin.

Separating the horns from the skull is hard work.

This is a bucket of skulls. Do you have that album? Anyway, the skulls are bleached in order to clean them.

The taxidermist uses this for skin-stretching. It’s not a hammer. It’s called an “A.K”

The bear’s skin is nailed to a dummy and then left to dry into shape. You have to spray the bear with arsenic or else it will rot or get eaten by bugs. 

The head needs to dry in front of a fan for at least 2 weeks. When it’s dry the pins and nails are removed.

The office is a mess. The studio is full of huge green flies, and it smells bad too. 

PHOTOS: ASEN OGNYANOV