Tottenham Cemetery, North London Circa 1999

I always loved the grain, in film. sometimes worked towards getting more of it sometimes worked on degrading the image to be completed grain.

sometimes choices were made for me by cameras having "issues" sometimes you look back and think wow, I love that vision, it isn't me now necessarily but I appreciate the person who saw things and retired them visually this way.

thats nice.

I visited this cemetery often when I lived in Tottenham ( nearly three years I was there) 

it was next to an old castle, Bruce Castle to be precise.

nunhead cemetery,

to bring some added life to the cemetery , the clan.

in the center of the church space

another one of London's beautiful Victorian cemeteries. was not much awrae of this one until our friend Pippin suggested it. we didn't live all that far but it was tucked away so as never to have been noticed when driving through Southwark in previous adventures. Nunhead felt much more airy and open and rolling then abney park or highgate which always felt more like entering the shrubbery and vines and distancing from the outside world. Like Abney this cemetery has a hollowed out church at the centre but unlike abney it appears the church is still used despite it's rootlessness, the centre still fit for memorials , perhaps more so without the roof. FONC (friends of Nunhead cemetary)

wiki

nothing to see here

tottenham, north london cemetery

north london, tottenham to be precise. arrive by train to bruce grove , from liverpool st station. walk towards the castle (bruce.) behind the castle grounds lies this cemetery. when i moved here my slr which was a hand me down from my great grandfather (used since the tender age of 15) and had started to allow light to escape inwards towards my films. so for these images it worked! the swirls of light leaks and ghostly exposures offers the perfect texture and sensation to the images. however it wasn't so great for trying to get work done for any publications or profit and the effects were uncontrollable and hit or miss. sometimes it added to the visual and others it took away. it can be seen increasing throughout prolonged use until eventually the camera hit the deck in Amsterdam and the light leak was no longer an added effect but more the ever present state of any photo i took.

wiki bruce castle

haringay council

time out article

general london cemetery info