The French dramatist Jean Genet once wrote an essay called The Theater and the Cemeteries. In it he suggested to build theaters near the graveyards of the city, so the audience would have to walk through the graves and feel the presence of death before watching a play, transforming this walk into a form of meditation bringing people closer to the artistic expression.

As a photographer with a passion for architecture and the man-made environment and landscape, I try to capture in my work the stillness of life trough the stillness of stone. I have been fascinated by cemeteries and the various forms of expressing life and death that roams these sacred fields.

This photo essay is based on the dramatic situation grasped by my personal vision with the immutability of stone, sculpture and architecture, trapped between the light and the shadow. In an intent of capturing and holding the strength of life and defying the quietness of death, this funerary art is sometimes more lively than other kinds of art.