The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Photography
Aytemiz Karshlı, P. 2025
‘Visual narratives of Islamic funeral practices in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic’, Visual Anthropology, 37:5, 438-469.
Keywords
Brunhoff, A. de 1978
Souls in Stone: European Graveyard Sculpture, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
Gillon, E. 1972
Victorian Cemetery Art, New York, NY: Dover Publications.
Heng, T. 2018
‘Photographing absence in deathscapes’, Area, 53:2, 219-228.
Holleran, S. 2023
‘Cheeky monuments: photo-engraved headstone and image moderation in cemeteries’, Photographies, 16:1, 49-69.
Reyes-Cortez, M. 2013
‘Maintaining the dead in the life of the living: national culture and photography in the cemeteries of Mexico City’, in M. Aaron (ed) Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 26-49.
Robinson, D. & Koontz, D. 1996
Beautiful Death: Art of the Cemetery, Harmondsworth: Penguin Studio.
Keywords
Taylor, J. 1998
Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
