© Wendy Pye

Interestingly there’s an article in today’s Observer newspaper by Geraldine Bedell (The spectral memorials that haunt our roads) exploring the phenomenon of ghost bikes, which I coincidently wrote about in the blog last week. The article features a series of photographs by Katherine Rose of ghost bikes shot at night.

Spectre is also the title of an exhibition in the Brighton Photo Fringe featuring work by the photographers Karen Grainger, Wendy Pye, Toby Smith, Jackie Castellano, Kristy Gosling, Richard Kolker and Adrian Wood.

The exhibition explores several subjects surrounding the theme of the ‘Spectre’ and includes “the social impact of online virtual escape worlds, video work exploring the relationship between depression and perception, undercover cold war archaeology, the aging process and photography’s more conceptual relationship with death and the ghost.”

I’m particularly interested in seeing the work of Wendy Pye, which explores the landscape of Beachy Head, a beauty spot in Sussex and notorious location for people attempting suicide. The image above shows flowers left at the scene of a suicide, photographed at night.

You can find out details of the exhibition on this dedicated website.

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