New French Post Mortem

My second birthday present from my parents was a lovely little French Post Mortem Cabinet Card (I chose it) its a small sized card, and I love it, its so delicate and beautiful.

Here I am holding it so you can get an idea of its size, I went through a phase of the bigger the better with the photos I was buying, but I'm getting much more interested in the little ones recently. There's something so fragile and delicate about the small ones that is so beautiful. I have another one this size and they look so lovely together, a good quality image in this size of cabinet card is just unbeatable! 

Here is a scan of the full thing, as I've mentioned it's from France, the child is posed outside judging from the wall behind. He or she has the typical 'death curl' in the hair and the face is just heartbreaking and slightly spooky. This poor child looks so fragile in death, hopefully this photograph brought some comfort to the parents and helped preserve the child's memory.

more on my Childrens Portrait series

I really like these little girls, I think they're quite adorable in a spooky kind of way, and I have managed to get a huge amount of uses from my one new Carte De Visite background

Portraits

For my last images, i'm going to focus on portraits of the children, in Carte De Visite style. The Governess has become completely taken over by the idea that these spirits want to inhabit the children in order to be together again, she can no longer see the children as Innocent creatures