Death and the salesman: the 22-year-old selling human bones for a living

Jon Ferry sells old bones used in the teaching of medicine. But the medical bone trade has a murky history of exploitation

In a small, light-filled Bushwick studio space, a brown box rests on a wooden coffee table. Inside is a human head. Wanna start?" asks Jon Pichaya Ferry, pulling a box cutter out of the pocket of his black skinny jeans.

Inside is a lumpy form wrapped in thin aqua foam, which he tears off to reveal a skull's mandible. Out comes the rest of the skull; he fits the two parts together and places it on the lid of a coffin in the corner of the room, next to a can of Red Bull.