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Part of a serie from Old Lier Psychiatric Hospital.
Lier Psychiatric Hospital in Norway has a long history as an institution. The massive buildings house the memory of a grim chapter in Norwegian psychiatric history the authorities would rather forget. There is little available information about the former activities at Lier Hospital, but it is documented experiments that were carried out on this Norwegian mental hospital in the postwar period from 1945 to 1975. It’s about the use of LSD, electroshock, brain research funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and drug research sponsored by major pharmaceutical companies. It is perhaps not surprising that they try to forget this place and the events taking place here.
Lier Psyciatric Hospital was built in 1926 and had room for nearly 700 patients at the most. In 1986, many of the buildings were closed and abandoned and they still stand empty to this day. Some of the buildings are still in operation today for psychiatric patients.
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Great capture and beautiful effects Erik, love it:)))
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Brilliant work !
Looking at this, with the exception of the color, it could be in Traverse City, Michigan. As with this one, the one in TC has been closed since the 80s. They put the real bad ones in other institutions and let the rest out on the streets. Today with the help of government funding it has been changed into a thriving market district. At its prime the institution was fully self-sufficient with the patients growing food, taking care of animals such as cows, chickens, etc., for milk and food. For those of us who love to photograph, these structures are awesome subjects to photograph. For everyone else, they are either an eyesore or something that can turn into revenue. I am glad ours has been refurbished to it’s original spender keeping as much of the original archetecture as possible. The ones not yet redone are sitting there abandoned waiting for attention! You did a wonderful job capturing this one. It is beautiful even with its past.
CONGRATULATIONS ERIK
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22 May 2012
Eerie and so sad! Well done.
Christina
Featured 22nd May 2012
Excellent treatment for the subject matter.
Very nice processing! Congrats on your feature.
Moody… which suits the subject. Congrats on your feature!