Welcome to Picturing Cemeteries!
Here I will be documenting burial monuments in the Emanu-el congregation Cemetery in Victoria BC. My project is to choose monuments with hard to read inscriptions and perform Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) photography on them.
I am choosing stones that we are in danger of losing the inscription completely as a means of conservation, and monuments with illegible inscriptions and motifs that we can try to rediscover what is nolonger visible due to environmental damage and degradation.
I will be looking at the existing historical records in conjunction with the images produced, and will be adding my research to a previously existing project, documenting the cemetery.
Changing weather over St. Kilda Cemetery, Melbourne Australia. Image by Melanie Heizer, June 2016.
War Memorial at the Emmanu-El Cemetery, Victoria BC. Image by Melanie Heizer, February 2017.
About Me
For more information about who I am and my involvment in this project.
Burial Records
See monument images, research results and records of the individuals in the cemetery.
Cemetery Images
Images of the cemetery, taken while conducting fieldwork.
Links
Links to webpages and additional resources.