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I Challenged Myself To Tell An Eerie Halloween Story In A Slightly Different Way

Halloween has always been a favorite holiday of mine. The entirety of the month of October is filled with scary stories, disturbing images, and amazing costumes. More than anything, Halloween allows you to be someone you aren’t, at least for a day. By trade, I am a professional commercial product and fashion photographer (Halloween stories like this would never be expected of me), so keeping with the nature of All Hallows Eve, I did something unlike me.

Every year I see horrifying Halloween photos, but though creepy, they’re too often cliche, mostly because of stereotypical overused and exhausted themes: clowns, little kids with bloody eyes, a girl on all fours crawling on the ceiling, you get it. All month I see these photoshoot ideas on Instagram, so I challenged myself to do something new. Something different.

The ten creepy pictures I am presenting, paired with their titles, tell a story (let me know what you think it is). They all go together in a very particular order, which may not be immediately clear. I intended to develop an eerie vibe that leads the viewer to feel claustrophobic, trapped, uncomfortable, all without utilizing the common horror stereotypes I noted earlier. My ultimate goal was to leave the viewer wondering after each scary photo: What happened? What is happening? And what is going to happen? I want you to fall into the scene and become one with the story portrayed. Once your curiosity pushes you to dive into the account, I want you to feel the need to escape, get out before it’s too late.

In the end, I achieved my personal goal of breaking out of the flashy and polished commercial work I always do, and I produced a compelling set of uncomfortable Halloween themed photographs that I am proud of. My favorites are number 1 and number 3. Feel free to comment below and let me know what you think if they creeped you out, and if you are at all curious how I achieved the results I got, I would be more than happy to unveil my secrets.

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