These images are taken in various different places but they all have a common link - key gothic motifs. All of the photos are taken from cemeteries, a place which I believe can be linked to a number of the motifs.
Strange places - when you consider the reality of cemeteries you are standing somewhere surrounded by those who were once but no longer are alive, despite this people still take comfort in visiting them, feeling closer to the loved ones they've lost.
Clashing time periods - in a literal term the cemeteries have graves that were dug over a number of centuries and therefore a mixture of time periods. In addition to this, some of the photos were taken of memorials in Vienna. These were made from some form of metal which is no longer a common practise when creating memorials as the metal begins to rust from rain and oxidisation. These old practices in a modern day world cause a clash of time.
The supernatural and the real - some people believe that life is not over after death but there is instead a supernatural world where spirits are able to live on in the form of ghosts, as a cemetery is a resting place for the bodies of the deceased, they bring together both the idea of this supernatural world of the spirits that were once part of the deceased but also the real; that these people are no longer with us and their physical beings lay beneath us.
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