Photos depict life after death
- Published: 21/02/2012 at 02:59 AM
- Newspaper section: Life
Carpediem Galleries will present "Hungry Ghost", which features a series of digitally remixed photographs of city skylines by David Barratt.
In the Buddhist tradition, hungry ghosts are the spirits of greedy humans, who in the afterlife are forced to walk the earth with tiny mouths and huge empty stomachs forever unable to satisfy their desires.
Barratt saw the flowering of a thousand skyscrapers across Asian city skylines as the new hungry ghosts, manufacturing endless desire which can never be fulfilled. He explores this modern manifestation of the ancient tradition in his new series of photographs.
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