Motts Haha yep, I was wondering if anyone caught that!

Location: Salesian School  Gallery: Forgotten Prayers

Motts W'force, thank you for the very insightful and well thought comments... yes I agree that a "photos on white pages" book would not present my work the way I would want, but books can be designed, much like this website. If I made a book, I would hope to keep a similar feeling in the text and design as the photos give. I only know of a handful of books that feature photography of abandoned asylums and other such buildings, perhaps I am missing out on something?

Location: Northwood Asylum  Gallery: Silence

	Motts Yeah OK... don't bullshit us, quite a few people visiting this site have worked inside and some actually have been patients in these places - stop making up stories.

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

	Motts I'm not all too sure, they might have been unstable and ready to collapse.

Location: Pilgrim State Hospital  Gallery: The Power Plant

	Motts It wasn't a wing, it was an underground tunnel that carried steam from the power plant to the hospital building. These places often flood because there is no drainage, and the water gets deep when no one is there to pump it out.

Location: Isolation Hospital  Gallery: Flooded

	Motts I think they were lab reports.

Location: Isolation Hospital  Gallery: Flooded

	Motts Because it used to be (and still is to an extent) a beautiful location that was unmolested by looters and taggers.

Location: Hewitt State Hospital and Prison  Gallery: Live Wires and Dead Places

	Motts It reads "EBSARY Trade Mark" then flipped and repeated on the bottom... it was on each brick behind the plaster.

Location: Cynthia Lee Memorial Hospital  Gallery: Debris

	Motts Actually, it wasn't psychiatric at all, it was a municipal hospital that had certain floors dedicated for catering to the wealthy.

Location: Cynthia Lee Memorial Hospital  Gallery: Debris

	Motts It was about 5 feet tall... I didn't see any lighting inside, it was probably used to hold flowers and other decorative items.

Location: Cynthia Lee Memorial Hospital  Gallery: Debris

	Motts Adam, please see the About page, it might answer your questions.

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

	Motts Sorry, I don't give out that kind of information.

Location: Northwood Asylum  Gallery: Silence

	Motts Yeah I wear a mask in steam tunnels and places with a large amount of friable asbestos that could/will be disturbed. Just as a side note, a P100 rated filter is a good idea if you don't want asbestosis later on; a paper dust mask or bandana will do nothing for you. Do the research before you go.

Location: Isolation Hospital  Gallery: Flooded

	Motts Aha! So that's what this is, a shower trolley! http://www.opacity.us/image1956.htm Thanks for the link Lynne, now I will have a better idea of what the function is of the equipment I'm looking at! And yeah, it's definitely a slab tub, there was a full sized bathtub in the room too.

Location: Roseville State School  Gallery: Open Sores

Motts Well, a "state school" was basically a hospital for young people with mental illnesses, and many of them had physical ailments as well because of birth defects and other complications. Some of them needed constant medical attention, and as with any hospital, there will be many deaths involved with treating these people, especially when we didn't have the medical technology and understanding of today.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

	Motts Thank you, and yes I do hope to visit the UK and/or Scotland sometime soon to photograph the asylums there.

Location: Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry)  Gallery: Sunlight

	Motts Around 30 seconds, I think.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: A Farewell Visit?

	Motts Pennhurst was a more or less "local" state school for young people in PA, I would guess over a thousand patients lived there at any one time.. a lot less than 15,000. More patients = more deaths. Pennhurst had a two drawer morgue by the way, the top door was used to access the refrigeration equipment, much like this freezer.

Location: Pilgrim State Hospital  Gallery: Emptiness

	Motts The vulture was hopping around during this long exposure shot.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

	Motts It resembled a brick with ridges that held the plaster in; they look like the wall in this photo. http://www.opacity.us/image427.htm

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Gray Skies

	Motts Rusty water from the ceiling and cribs.

Location: Roseville State School  Gallery: Open Sores

	Motts I don't remember seeing the power on anywhere except for maybe a few street lights.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: Forgotten

	Motts Depends on how big the place is. I think the longest time so far is 11 hours straight inside one place, and it was gigantic.

Location: Gravesend Asylum  Gallery: Thorazine Dream

	Motts It's copper, if I'm not mistaken.

Location: Buffalo State Hospital  Gallery: Night Photography

	Motts The lights were on; I try to leave the building as is, turning lights on and off isn't a good idea unless you want to see the place get sealed up tight in a few days.

Location: Roseville State School  Gallery: Open Sores