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(photographer unknown)

“All of them lost and stranded, severed from anything that could connect them to home, to the faces behind the masks. Only the locations, or the odd small notes written on the back, the occasional names or dates, offer clues. Sometimes even these notes are opaque and enigmatic. One haunting example that springs to mind reads, ‘Oh you kids with the heavy eyes’.

(…)

There are a number of pictures (…) that have this effect, where a darkness shakes you, clings to you, sets a lunar chill on your heart.”

Haunted Air by Ossian Brown, with an introduction by David Lynch, is published by Jonathan Cape.