Karl Dmitri Bishop was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom. After studying Hindu studies and Pagan mythology Dmitri Bishop lives between the UK and India.
His shots are highly constructed and processed, with each feeling more akin to a painting; the elaborate veils that shroud each subject lend them their intangible quality of otherworldliness.
Through photography (mainly), but also other artistic means, Karl Dmitri Bishop seeks catharsis, and mimesis of a dreamlike state disconnected from reality, a visual representation of what is not seen, yet thriving somewhere, in-between the layers of our rational and rationalizing sight.
His work has been shown and published in many countries around the world, including India, Australia and the USA.
With an ever growing audience, Karl Dmitri Bishop leaves a sense of wonder and mystery with his magical work.
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'Daughter of Darkness' The Fairy Fetch' is a belief in old rural England that the phantom 'the fetch' of somebody stll hale and hearty can, and does, appear as a omen warning that that persons end is near. "She was chanting as she walked, in a clear but small voice, and though her words are in a tougne they could not understand, there was no question but that it was a lament or dirge, so mournful were the notes and so sorrowful her mien"
'The Magus' In 1611, at Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, Father Louis Gaufridi was burnt alive for allegedly sending demons into the Ursuline nuns at Aix. At the age of 19, a nun named Madeleine fell victim to what those around her considered to be unmistakable demonic possession. Her body was contorted, and in a fit of rage she destroyed a crucifix calling out that Father Gaufridi had given her the "green devil". After physical and mental torture inflicted on Father Gaufridi during his time in prison, a pact with the Devil was produced in court, allegedly signed in Gaufridi's own blood. Immediately following Gaufridi's execution, Sister Madeleine suddenly appeared free of all possession. Two years later, the possession hysteria spread to Lille, France, where three nuns claimed to have been bewitched by Sister Madeleine. Madeleine herself was charged with witchcraft, and despite being found to have the Devil's mark and being sentenced to imprisonment, she was eventually released to the custody of a relative and died in 1670 at the age of 77.
