Yesterday I skipped my photography class and took photos instead. Two hours of PowerPoint presentation or an afternoon in Recoleta Cemetery? It wasn’t a difficult decision. The sky was glorious, […]

“My pace quickens as I see the walled city that is Recoleta Cemetery. All I need to do is walk around the wall and I will be inside. Tantalising angels […]

On Friday, I stumbled upon Saint Rose of Lima. Not in the flesh, of course, but immortalised in this Recoleta Cemetery window. Why do I get the feeling she was […]

The security guard pinched my arm to check I was real. “You’re alive!” he said, half joking, half relieved. Quite casually, he explained that he’s seen ghosts at Recoleta Cemetery, […]

She was always just the Rosary ghost to me, until last week. I found myself lured into one of those religious megastores, crammed with books and crucifixes and holy figurines, […]

They seemed to float out of nowhere. I was on one of my afternoon wanders around the cemetery and felt a pull to explore an alley near one of my […]

If you stand in front of Bernardo de Irigoyen’s mausoleum in Recoleta Cemetery, you’ll see two solemn statues, the one on the left bearing a feathery palm branch. Turn 180 […]

The discovery that I can make the people in a tomb window look as though they are up a tree is a new and exciting one. For many months, I […]

“Re-found one of my favourite photos today, at last. RIP Jesus I call it. A roof with a bright Jesus surrounded by bold blue glass and a scrolly design. His […]

María is how it all began – my fascination with reflections at the cemetery. Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, that is. One afternoon in December 2007, I took a photo […]