Deborah Burst

I love getting lost inside old cemeteries, just me and my camera exploring every headstone and every cracked crevice. And I love the drama of thunderstorms as they slowly crawl across the graveyards...yes, I'm a confessed taphophile, a lover of cemeteries with a passion in photographing and writing about historic churches and their cemeteries.

It is here inside these gothic abodes that the dead continue their story. The funerary architecture brings to life the religious and artistic history from New Orleans to the haunting bayous across southeast Louisiana. It's a ghoulish art exhibit with shadowed headstones sharing epitaphs of beloved children, prominent aristocrats and fallen war heroes.

My book, Louisiana's Sacred Places: Churches, Cemet

I love getting lost inside old cemeteries, just me and my camera exploring every headstone and every cracked crevice. And I love the drama of thunderstorms as they slowly crawl across the graveyards...yes, I'm a confessed taphophile, a lover of cemeteries with a passion in photographing and writing about historic churches and their cemeteries.

It is here inside these gothic abodes that the dead continue their story. The funerary architecture brings to life the religious and artistic history from New Orleans to the haunting bayous across southeast Louisiana. It's a ghoulish art exhibit with shadowed headstones sharing epitaphs of beloved children, prominent aristocrats and fallen war heroes.

My book, Louisiana's Sacred Places: Churches, Cemeteries and Voodoo, brings to life a trail of history and mystery with the New Orleans' cities of the dead, backroad churchyards and the calling of spirits in a Voodoo ceremony.

Print and eBook available on Amazon, Smashwords, and signed copies at http://www.deborahburst.com