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With each winding road and tucked away corner, a new architectural treasure or monument reveals itself as Edinburgh's walls begin to tell of a rich and fascinating history. The melancholy sepia photographs in the book explore Edinburgh's Royal Mile and its surrounding areas including some of its beautiful cemeteries: Greyfriars Kirkyard, New Calton Burial Ground, and Canongate Kirkyard. Take a stroll through the streets and enjoy the facades of Edinburgh Castle, St. Gile's Cathedral, the Canongate Tolbooth, Regent Bridge and the mystery of the city's alleys and closes. A picture is worth 1000 words- a unique art photography book without text. For those interested in dark tourism/alternative travel destinations, this is a lovely photo book with a surreal touch. Photomontages and the vintage feel of the images are reminiscent of times gone by. A list of addresses of locations is included at the end of the book with corresponding page numbers.

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Talissa Mehringer is a German/Mexican multimedia artist + photographer based in Berlin. Daughter of anthropologists, she was lucky to travel extensively as a child. At the age of six, she accompanied them on a trip to Brazil as part of their fieldwork, where she was initiated into the Canela tribe during a village ceremony surrounded by the lush green of the Amazon rainforest. At the age of 7, her family moved to Tanzania where she was allowed to witness and participate in ceremonial festivities of the Maasai people. The beautiful sound of their singing and terracotta-red dyed fabrics, colorful beaded jewelry, and elaborate hairstyles were incredibly inspiring to her young mind. Many of these early life experiences ignited a deep passion for adventure, history, and learning. She studied film and media arts in New York where she developed her surreal + theatrical style. Her photography work is cinematic in that the pages of her books unfold frame by frame weaving visual narratives through phantasmagoric spaces and environments. Her work has been exhibited at festivals + galleries internationally across the U.S. and Europe.www.TalissaMehringer.com

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