This new gothic-themed exhibition has a lot to teach photographers about making the ordinary feel unsettling

Black and white photograph of a woman pushing a pram along a bleak industrial road, with factory chimneys smoking in the background.

You don't need a haunted house to make a photograph feel haunted. That's the lesson buried inside Dark Tales: British Documentary Photography and the Gothic, a new exhibition opening at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, England, on September 17 and running until December 20.

Curator Isaac Blease has pulled together more than 80 years of British documentary work, much of it drawn from the Foundation's own archive of over 5,000 prints.