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title: Carnival of the Grotesques
url: https://billwardphotography.co.uk/portfolios/carnival-of-the-grotesques/
date: 2021-01-22
modified: 2026-09-30
type: ajr_content
lang: en-GB
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Project

# Carnival of the Grotesques

Worlds within worlds

## Victoria Park, Bristol

There’s a log in our local park that our kids play on. A couple of years ago, I happened to take a closer look at it, and was very surprised to see all sorts of dark and murky worlds in miniature. I decided to do a long form photographic project on it, so over the last 2 years have been back on a number of occasions, in varying seasons, and weather conditions. This is a selection from this project, which remains ongoing. The subjects themselves are no more than an inch or so across: in some ways I suppose you could describe it as a Macro project, but I prefer to think of it as Micro Landscape Photography project, due to the various worlds and creatures contained within.

### Tucked Away…

**… in the shadows of the woodgrain, there lurk a whole host of creatures and apparitions, hewn out of the decaying woodgrain by the wind, rain, and old father time, like the last surviving exhibits from a long forgotten Victorian Carnival.**