Women's psychiatric ward Ward 81 Bashny.Net

Recently, the New York photographer Bill Diodati published a monograph titled «Care of Ward 81," which describes the part of hospital life that you have not seen. Ward 81 - women's ward of Oregon, where women receive treatment and privacy. When he learned that he would be taking pictures is the separation, Bill Diodati felt responsibility to women who once lived here. It was in this hospital filmed "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in 1975. The famous photographer Mary Ellen Mark has written the introduction to this monograph, which were the words: "Photographs by Bill confirms the feeling that I have always felt at this point - that in Ward 81 are still inhabited ghost».

6 photos Bill Diodato

1. There were all sorts of people - mothers, grandmothers, sisters, wives, daughters, who went to the place that they found peace, which could not find with family and friends.





2. Once there lived a patient with a variety of mental disorders.



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4. Here there are unique patient. Someone was looking for solitude, someone, on the contrary, communication. And someone just sitting there all day, looking at the blue sky through the bars on the windows.



5. The bars on the windows and stayed.



6. As a psychiatric ward, Ward 81 has ceased to exist in November 1977.



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