Eerie, Wild Scenes Straight Out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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Like a professional location scout for Grimm fairy tale movies, photographer Kilian Schönberger seeks out and explores the less-traveled regions of Europe, searching for places that test the boundaries of fantasy and reality. The results are haunting photographs that look like they were smuggled out of a dream.

“Tolkien’s books, like Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, were inspired by the old European myths, legends and fairy tales,” says Schönberger. “The movies featured the wild landscapes of New Zealand – but I wanted to find out if there are similar wild landscapes left in the populous region of Middle Europe, too. Therefore, I visited places in Germany, Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Austria.”

The resulting series is called Brothers Grimm Homeland, for which Schönberger expertly uses framing, fog and lighting to subtly suggest the fairy tales of The Brothers Grimm. He lets our imaginations do the rest.



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[flying rabbit]

1. Spectacular!

Definitely nails it!

[cemaphonic]

2. Although it's comparatively well-known, the Old Jewish Cemetary in Prague is pretty eeire.

Headstones tilting every which way, many so old that the inscriptions are almost completely effaced. You can't tell from this picture, but it has a bit of a slope to it too. It almost looks like a movie set instead of a real cemetery.

[packman]

3. The Wikipedia article

on this cemetery is interesting stating it goes back at least to the 1400's with speculation it may go back another 1,000 years and the reason for the crowding of the stones is Jewish religious law does not allow stones to be removed for new burials. Therefore dirt was piled on old graves to accommodate new burials and another stone placed on the same site. Up to six levels of dirt and the accompanying stones are on one burial site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Jewish_Cemetery,_Prague

[LongTomH]

4. They could also be scenes from old Universal 'horror' movies of the 30s.

That was back when so-called horror movies were atmospheric, creepy and classy. No chainsaws or decaying zombies.

[Amaril]

5. Stunning!

He has a new fan!

[Xyzse]

6. Beautiful.

I like it.

[Aldo Leopold]

7. Really cool, thanks for posting!