Dead Pretty
Photos by Zarina Holmes, Salina Christmas and Gregory Lecointe
Words by Zarina Holmes

I am not obsessed with cemeteries as such. My curiosity began in July 2007; that was when 7/7 happened in London and my brother passed away two weeks later. To mourn or make sense of the sudden loss, we took our Nikons to West Brompton and did a photo shoot there.

The result was rather wonderful – hauntingly beautiful, raw and a touch macabre. We are not publishing our first experiments here.

A year later we brought our lenses back to West Brompton. Gregory took his Canon to the Ricoletta in Buenos Aires. The results are dead beautiful.

 



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© Zarina Holmes. West Brompton Cemetery, London. Nikon D70S
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