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$link new york times series by Christopher Payne called “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,” drawing on a a six-year, 30-state tour of more than 70 [psychiatric] hospitals, many of them still functioning, though at a fraction of their capacity. Heres the link. There is some wonderful imagery of which the one above is my favourite, for the depth and contradictions that it manages to communicate about the nature of institutional care. Concern for well-being within an intensely regimented framework. (what is the dental health care now for those sleeping rough in the ‘di-instituationalised’ world?) and also the photographers care- “The toothbrushes were located in a dimly lit bathroom of a back ward, deep within the abandoned hospital, but my escort knew where to find them. Almost hidden, they had hung motionless and forgotten for thirty years, but for the few hours that it took to take this shot, they were the most important things in the world to me.”$

link new york times series by Christopher Payne called “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,” drawing on a a six-year, 30-state tour of more than 70 [psychiatric] hospitals, many of them still functioning, though at a fraction of their capacity. Heres the link. There is some wonderful imagery of which the one above is my favourite, for the depth and contradictions that it manages to communicate about the nature of institutional care. Concern for well-being within an intensely regimented framework. (what is the dental health care now for those sleeping rough in the ‘di-instituationalised’ world?)

and also the photographers care-

“The toothbrushes were located in a dimly lit bathroom of a back ward, deep within the abandoned hospital, but my escort knew where to find them. Almost hidden, they had hung motionless and forgotten for thirty years, but for the few hours that it took to take this shot, they were the most important things in the world to me.”

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