“As soon as the patient passes the internment wall, he enters a new dimension of emotional emptiness ([…])” — Franco Basaglia (Italian psychiatrist, 1924-1980).

It seems strange to me to write that, but mental illness has been with me all my life. I grew up in Haar, a Munich suburb. A tranquil and beautiful place yet one that accommodates one of the largest psychiatric institutions in Germany. A beautiful area with old Art Nouveau buildings but also with a cruel dark past, because in World War II euthanasia was practiced here.

Having this in mind, my curiosity for the background of psychiatric institutions was awakened. When I visited one of these former institutions in Italy for the first time in 2013 and learned more about the sometimes cruel conditions, I realized that I wanted to photograph these places.

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#1 Dr. Rosetti

#2 Hells Eden

#3 One More Light

#4 Oversized

#5 A New Dawn

#6 Thoughts Prison

#7 The Last Walk

#8 Like Kings (…)

#9 Deceptive

#10 Bad Treatment

#11 Going Nowhere

#12 Next To You

#13 Silent Screams

#14 The Holes

#15 Straitjacket

#16 Vulnerable

#17 Final Destination

#18 The Way Into The Uncertain

#19 Help Less

#20 Solitude

#21 Clockwork Orange

#22 Idyll….maybe

#23 Invastigation

#24 Silence Is Golden

#25 Claustrophobia

#26 The End Of The End

#27 One Way

#28 Nof4

#29 Lonely End

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