Long Island, NY (2008)
(NatureTakes Back What Is Hers)
For over 100 years, the town of Kings Park, located about 50 miles east of Manhattan, was home to a psychiatric center.
In the meantime, nature has long taken over the majority of the buildings in the closed off sections of the grounds, and the result is a haunting picture of how fragile and transient our civilization is.
All of these images were digitally color-corrected to acutely echo the somber, monochromatic feeling of isolation I felt roaming the grounds alone at dawn, through sunrise.
For over 100 years, the town of Kings Park, located about 50 miles east of Manhattan, was home to a psychiatric center.
The sprawling complex housed not only patients, but the staff and their families. It began to decline in population in the 1950s.
By the early 1990s, the few remaining patients were transferred out, and dozens of buildings of all shapes and sizes were abandoned. As state-owned land, the property faced years of indecision, amidst citizen concerns of asbestos and contamination. Only in 2000, a section of the campus reopened as a state park. The rest remains, waiting for the government decision to sell to private developers, or work on converting the rest of the territory to parkland.
By the early 1990s, the few remaining patients were transferred out, and dozens of buildings of all shapes and sizes were abandoned. As state-owned land, the property faced years of indecision, amidst citizen concerns of asbestos and contamination. Only in 2000, a section of the campus reopened as a state park. The rest remains, waiting for the government decision to sell to private developers, or work on converting the rest of the territory to parkland.
In the meantime, nature has long taken over the majority of the buildings in the closed off sections of the grounds, and the result is a haunting picture of how fragile and transient our civilization is.
All of these images were digitally color-corrected to acutely echo the somber, monochromatic feeling of isolation I felt roaming the grounds alone at dawn, through sunrise.
