Rebecca Lilith Bathory


Rebecca Lilith Bathory, also known as Rebecca Litchfield, is a British photographer, living in London. She is known for her photographic series Return to Fukushima, and Soviet Ghosts.

Early life and education

Bathory was born in Sutton, London, England, on 1 May 1982. She graduated from University for the Creative Arts with a first class degree in Graphic Design in June 2006. Between 2008 and 2010 she studied for a master's degree in Fashion Photography at The London College of Fashion, for which she was awarded a distinction. She exhibited her final masters project, Edenias, at London's Mall Gallery.
In 2014 she was awarded a Techne scholarship for a research PhD degree at the University of Roehampton to research the photography of dark tourism

''Soviet Ghosts''

Bathory recorded many abandoned locations within 10 countries of the former Soviet Union, including towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums and death camps. Bathory’s examines a society shrouded by the cold war.

''Return to Fukushima''

Bathory's second book explores the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Photographed within the thirty mile exclusion zone, 2016 was the first time that residents of the town of Tomioka were given permission to return to their homes; Bathory was also given permission to photograph in the exclusion zone.

Exhibition