Gothic photographs ♰

Anything and everywhere could be Gothic if you only looked at it through these black shaded glasses. 

It doesn't have to be a graveyard or a church with a moon in the background but also textures, shapes or even lightening. I have taken some pictures which put my idea of Gothic into something more visual then just words. 

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This photo was taken in one of the Southampton parks. I thought that this tree created this mysterious atmosphere with a bit of feeling of the 'unknown'... I could see it as a part of the setting in the Great Expectations or any other 'gothic/horror' styled movie. 

I like how much of a contrast this photo has, which could possibly represent good and evil. We can see this decaying tree with a bright sky in the background, which could represent freedom or maybe even hope, as we don't see any clouds... 

©Sylwia Mazur 

The photo on the right was taken at a graveyard which I visited first. However, to me it felt very limited when I was thinking about it as a Gothic inspiration. 

The thing I really like in this photo is all the visible textures- the grass, the cement of which the graves have been made of, the trees and the sky. 

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The photo above is one of my favourites. I took in on a sunny day on my way to dinner. Who would have thought! I just imagined the sun in B&W and used my phone to take it. The clouds added a lot of mystery to this photo making it look very gothic... The building has different textures on it which I thought was very interesting as it added character to it and at the same time- the photo. It created this dark mood looking photograph which I think could be one of the scenes from a horror film. 

©Sylwia Mazur

The photo on the right was taken in a pub in Southampton. I thought the curtains and the wooden bits on the walls had a lot of that Victorian feel... 

It's funny how anywhere I go now, I see something from that era, or inspired by it. It's beautiful in a way how now we think something is modern but in reality after doing some research, we realise it has been done before and we just adapted it to what we like now. 

There is also a woman figure made out of wood on the left which adds a bit of that ghost element to this photograph... She looks like she is floating, which makes me really like this photo because of the element of realism which it carries.