STARTLING images exploring the themes of death and freedom form part of a new photographic exhibition by the Reverend Peter Holzapfel.

This is the second exhibition by the Rector of Kempsey and Severn Stoke and follows a controversial display at Worcester Cathedral, when he showed a picture called Outcasts of the Crucified Jesus framed by two pigs heads rather than the two thieves.

His second display includes a Freedom Triptych showing the heads of three peasants exploring death and freedom.

The Scream is a weathering pattern of a screaming faces on a tomb in the Jewish cemetery in the Warsaw ghetto and Bitter Beer, a picture of a vandalised angel sculpture where a beer can has been wedged in the angel's shoulder.

In addition to photographs taken at Auschwitz and the Holy Land, there are many local images including poppy heads at Severn Stoke, the church gate at Kempsey and several from his former vicarage in Dines Green.

One called Laughing Camel Ears explores the theme of the absurdity of the human condition.

Mr Holzapfel said the exhibition had three aims - to make people aware of the words of scripture through pictures, to show the message of scripture in a way that people can relate to and to explore the tension between our way in the world and God's way.

"My first calling is to be a parish priest but I believe that I'm also called to produce images which make people think about faith and God and help people to see God in the everyday," he said.

You can see Mr Holzapfel's second exhibition on display in the Dean's Chapel at Worcester Cathedral until Saturday, May 19.