What is Horror and Macabre Art Photography?
The Horror and Macabre Photography Gallery is a very specific genre and the gallery description states that it is intended for “photographs which focus on the frightening, grotesque and disturbing.” That may seem like a rather broad definition, but it actually narrows it down to a very specific type of art. First, this is a photography gallery which means that the majority of the piece should be created in-camera. Adding blood splatter brushes, a crackled texture to skin, or cloning out the iris and pupils of your eye makes your work a photomanipulation. Second, and most importantly, the “frightening, grotesque, and disturbing” refers to work that has an atmosphere. Again, think about horror movies. Despite the fact that there are many different sub-genres of horror, they all have one thing in common… atmosphere. That eerie creepy feeling that crawls up the back of your spine, the bump in the night, the twisty turny thing your stomach does when the splatter of blood hits the ground..
