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

A cemetery is a good photographic subject. No matter how bright the light is, the shadow manage to cast a quiet sadness around.

A tomb is a monument on how one is to be remembered. As a great lover under Taj Mahal? A mighty ruler under the Giza pyramid? Or a yellowing embalmed body inside glass coffin like Lenin in Red Square?

Ironically common people get to choose how to be buried freely. Kings and leaders cannot choose how to lie eternally.

 



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© Gregory Lecointe. La Ricoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires. Canon IXUS
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