There is currently an exhibit of some of my infrared cemetery on display in the corridor of The Arts Place on Main Street in Fremont.
In Peace fron the Unwilling Sleep collection
I never meant to spend my time traipsing through cemeteries lurking around gravesites looking for angels. It just sort of happened, and as fate would have it happened to converge simultaneously with my burgeoning interest in infrared photography.
Briefly infrared photography makes use of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum just on the other side of the visible light spectrum. By using infrared film, or a digital camera modified for infrared, the photographer records this “unseen light.” The results are often surreal. The leaves of plants turn white. The sky is often rendered black. On first glance the photo appears to have been taken after an fresh early snowfall.
This seemed to me to be a natural media to make cemetery images. While in Savannah, Georgia I had occasion to spend a job part of the day roaming around the famous Bonaventure Cemetery with my IR modified Nikon camera. Later at the computer, I was blown away by the images I had made. The ones that really reverberated with me emotionally were the angels. I was hooked. The emotions associated with grieving, cemeteries and angels, combined with the urethral atmosphere of infrared’s unseen light, create unique images that affect us all in different, but powerful ways. Metaphorically the graveyard is the one journey that we all make, but for me I make this journey several times a year as I visit various cemeteries searching for angels. Please enjoy these ten images from my body of work that I refer to collectively as The Unwilling Sleep. –Richard Hinton
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