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Safe

amy

However you lit this up Motts, it's immaculate. Very very cool, thanks for this one.

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Transitions

Chamber

amy

I want a print of this! You could discuss what the hell that table is for with everyone who comes over.

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Transitions

Distortion

amy

I love this shot and this gallery! Let's not get into a big discussion about this, but I LOVE that this place hasn't been spray painted and smashed.

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Transitions

Window Detail

amy

MOTTS!! Seriously, WTF? Also, don't you hate jerks like me demanding explanations from you?

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

Window Detail

amy

comparing the two, you can also see a woman's smiling mouth in Mott's window. Almost like the pic is superimposed over another.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

Eden's Room

amy

We had a similar space where I used to work, it was for training staff. Just a big room with hospital beds, wheelchairs, dummies etc. We would practice transfering patients, dressing them, all that stuff. I could be totally wrong, but that was my first thought when I saw this pic. Beautiful shot too.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

Window Detail

amy

Motts, please tell me that's your reflection. I'm freaked out now.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Wonderland

Chair in the Midst

amy

This is lovely! So disorderly but there is something perfectly clean about it too.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

Waiting

amy

amazing amazing site. Am totally in awe of your work and your balls to do it. From all us chickens out here who have desperately wanted to see these places, thank you. I had to comment on this geri chair. We had two of these when I worked at a nursing home and the residents had to share them. They cost thousands of dollars. Why would so many be just left behind? But then, if every place you photographed were cleaned out, we wouldn't get that same sense of what had been, I suppose. I wonder if you are ever tempted to take something from these places. Something amazing just left to rot away. Have you ever been caught in the act? Is there a place or places that you just cannot get into? Are you also studying the science of the decay you find? Looking at certain pictures you can see how different materials hold up much better than others, I wonder if you think these things. Again, thank you.

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors