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Landscape - Charlie Waite. Philip Jarmain Photography. Nude. 25 Creepiest Places On Earth. Creepiness can be hard to define. Although the dictionary definition would be something along the lines of “annoyingly unpleasant” if you ask a hundred people you’ll most likely get a hundred different explanations. Keeping that in mind get ready to embark on a journey to some of the more spine tingling (or annoyingly unpleasant) corners of the globe. These are the 25 creepiest places on Earth.

Also known as the Cave of the Stone Sepulcher, it’s like something straight out of Indiana Jones. Housing numerous skeletons, the creepiest thing about this place is that most of them belong to children…sacrificed children to be more precise. After opening in the 70s this theme park was abruptly closed down supposedly due to a number of deaths on its rides and what was once intended to be the happiest place on Earth is now gradually being swallowed by the encroaching wilderness. Found near the village of Milton in Scotland, this bridge is the location of numerous suicides – over 600 to be exact. Alex Majoli's Portfolio. Alex Majoli was born in 1971 in Ravenna, Italy. He joined the f45 studio in his native city, working alongside Daniele Casadio when he was just 15 years old.

In 1989 he became a full-time photojournalist and joined the Grazia Neri agency the year after, where he remained until 1995. In 1992 and 1993 he traveled to Yugoslavia to document the conflict there, and in the following years followed the strife into Kosovo and Albania. In 1994 Majoli dedicated himself to a long-term project on the insane asylum on the Greek island of Leros. This notoriously brutal institution, a former political prison, housed the outcasts from the country's psychiatric hospitals. Majoli documented the closing down of the asylum and the introduction of the inmates to island society, the result of the pioneering work of Dr Franco Basaglia, from Trieste. In 1995 he worked in South America where he began his personal project Requiem in Samba.

Majoli joined Magnum Photos in 1996 and in 2001 he became a full member. Stephen Shore's Portfolio. Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past thirty years. His career began at the early age of fourteen, when he made the precocious move of presenting his photographs to Edward Steichen, then curator of photography at MOMA. Recognizing Shore's talent, Steichen bought three of his works. At the age of 24 Shore became the first living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has also had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the George Eastman House, Rochester, and the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf.

He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970's sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. Eugene de salignac photos. Photography by Rhys Davies. Pep Ventosa Photographs. Gerald Reisinger. Tim Walker Photography.