From the Shut Your Aperture archive (2015): the contributor’s remarks and photographs belong to their original publication period.

Ghosts by Ray van Halen

Ghosts by Ray van Halen

In a statement published with this gallery, Ray van Halen described a self-taught practice focused on mysterious and surreal photography. That description belongs to the original publication period.

Van Halen described Ghosts as a series inspired by ghost stories and accounts of Victorian apparitions. The figures in the photographs are staged artistic imagery, not evidence of paranormal events.

Ghostly figure at a table in an old roomSave

Shadowy figure standing near a bright windowSave

Blurred human-shaped form against curtainsSave

Child-like doll in an empty roomSave

Ethereal form hovering above a sofaSave

Dark figure beside a bathroom mirrorSave

Shadow at the end of an open doorwaySave

Blurred figure against a pale curtainSave

Shadowy figure on a wooded pathSave

Dim figure by a windowSave

Empty room with a pale windowSave

Chair suspended above a tableSave

Ghostlike form reflected in glassSave

Sunlit window in a dim roomSave

Figure on a purple-tinted forest pathSave

Girl-like figure against a patterned wallSave

Doll sitting alone in an empty roomSave

Person walking on a purple-tinted woodland pathSave

Pale figure standing beside a bedSave

Dark figure at the end of a hallwaySave

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