Cemeteries represent a range of transitions, both physical and symbolic. There’s the obvious shift between life and death, but also more subtle ones like past to present, memory to forgetting, and presence to absence. These echoes can actually be seen in the weathered stone, overgrown or dying flowers, changing lights throughout the day, and the seasons as they pass from one to another.
In this photographic series, I recorded a mausoleum in a local cemetery throughout the seasons to highlight seasonal transitions taking place within the framework of the emotional transitions that take place at the same time.
This series of photographs are meant to digitally mimic infrared film. Color infrared film flips how landscapes look by capturing infrared light instead of normal color. Plants glow red or pink, skies get really dark, and water looks almost black. It cuts through haze and boosts contrast, so everything feels sharper, moodier, and kind of surreal, like a familiar place turned strange and dreamlike.