The long-lost girl

photography

This series of ghostly portraits is an homage to the hundreds of children who through the 19thcentury worked long, tiring and dangerous shifts in the Shrewsbury Flaxmill. It was exhibited on location in 2011.

© Paola Alessandri-Gray

Stairs

Ghost 1

On her own

They locked the door

Ghost 2

She did not want to be there

Ghost 3