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Mourning Light: Where Shadows Become Legends

At Gothic Bite Magazine, we are proud to showcase the work of artists and photographers whose creativity helps bring the strange, beautiful, and unexplained to life. This week, we are pleased to welcome photographer Huw Lloyd and share his work with our readers.

As a photographer I have never been interested in photographing perfection. I am interested in the atmosphere. I am interested in creating characters who look as though they have stepped out of a forgotten kingdom or wandered from the pages of an old myth.

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Huw Lloyd Photographer - Emma Graveside

The Mourning of the Victorian Era In Photographs

As both a photographer and someone who works in the funeral industry, I have always held a fascination with the theatricality and visual aesthetic of Victorian mourning practices. Death in the Victorian era was not hidden away or sanitised; it was ritualised, romanticised, and woven visibly into everyday life.

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