Carpathian Mountains by Sorin Onisor - All Rights Reserved - Click for Full Size
Part of a series of images from the shadowy fringes of the Internet. Visuals that stir my sense for the eerie and macabre.
What a wildly evocative photograph. You could be staring at the literal stage-set for a James Whale / Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi movie. Or the sight that grabbed the imagination of Bram Stoker back in the mid-to-late 1890s when he would have been putting together his Dracula novel. And I think if Mary Shelly had seen this rather than the remote landscapes around Geneva – her monstrous charnel creation within “The Modern Prometheus” may have shared the fictional reality of the Dracula legacy: it’s certainly a scene that screams with the vivid passions of primal Earth, whilst ancient spirits mutter and whisper secrets in the chilly shadow-flooded gorges where the sun never penetrates.
The photographer Sorin Onisor has a set of stunning images from the region – more contemporary that this enigmatic black and white, but still very much worth having a browse through.
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