The cemetery of Loyasse
In 2016 and 2017, I went several times to the old, monumental cemetery of Loyasse in Lyon (France) to document the interesting and curious sepultures that are to be found there. Loyasse is the oldest remaining cemetery in Lyon, and is traditionally considered the proper place of eternal rest for the wealthy bourgeois of the city.
Over the coming days, I will upload more photographs taken there during those two years.
For many of those pictures, I used a manual focus lens, a Voigtländer Nokton 58mm f/1.8, made in Japan by Cosina and looking exactly like vintage Nikkor lenses, however with modern optics and optimal performance. I hope you will enjoy those photographs.
Many sepultures in that cemetery are centuries old. Some families have ceased to exist altogether, others I imagine do not care... and that is why all those tombs lie or stand in disarray, decaying away until they become dangerous for their neighbors or for passers-by, and in such a case the cemetery personnel intervene and take down the threatening components.
The cemetery of Loyasse
In 2016 and 2017, I went several times to the old, monumental cemetery of Loyasse in Lyon (France) to document the interesting and curious sepultures that are to be found there. Loyasse is the oldest remaining cemetery in Lyon, and is traditionally considered the proper place of eternal rest for the wealthy bourgeois of the city.
Over the coming days, I will upload more photographs taken there during those two years.
For many of those pictures, I used a manual focus lens, a Voigtländer Nokton 58mm f/1.8, made in Japan by Cosina and looking exactly like vintage Nikkor lenses, however with modern optics and optimal performance. I hope you will enjoy those photographs.
Many sepultures in that cemetery are centuries old. Some families have ceased to exist altogether, others I imagine do not care... and that is why all those tombs lie or stand in disarray, decaying away until they become dangerous for their neighbors or for passers-by, and in such a case the cemetery personnel intervene and take down the threatening components.