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A mental disorder or mental illness affects a quarter of people around the world during their lives but many will neither seek nor receive help, according to the World Health Organisation. It is stated that one million people commit suicide every year and that around ten to twenty million people attempt to take their own lives.

Around the world 450 million people suffer from a range of condi-tions such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar or dementia but still only half of all countries have just one psychiatrist per 100,00 people. A shocking four out of ten countries have in place no mental health policy at all.

In the United Kingdom under the National Health Service and Com-munity Care Act in 1990, people with mental health problems were able to remain in their own homes whilst undergoing treatment. This meant that the majority of psychiatric hospitals were in turn shut down.

This book takes you on a journey through a series of eight abandoned buildings. All of the images were taken using film and were shot using both a Lomography LC-A or a Miniature Diana Camera.

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Westerleigh School: Hastings- p11,12,17,20,21,22,27,32,33

St. Auhustine’s Hosiptal: Chartham- p3,4,5,37

St. Peters Hospital Mortuary: Chertsey- p39

Harperbury Hospital: Shenley- p15,36

Babies Castle Orphanage: Hawkhurst Kent- p6,8,9,10,13,18,24,25

Springfield Hospital: Tooting- p35

The Mount Hospital: Hampshire- p28,29,30,31

Chessington Abandoned House- p7, 34

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Richard Carlson - p2Pras Michel - p6John Green, Looking for Alaska - p9Karen Duffy - p10Janne Teller - Nothing - p12Markus Zusak, The Book Thief - p16Don Marquis - p19Billy Joel - p21Susan Sontag - p25Henry Fosdick - p27Michael Landon - p28Stephen Chbosky, Perks of Being a Wallflower - p15, 24, 29Gloria Steinem - p23Corazon Aquino - p33Winston Churchill - p37Brock Thoene, Shiloh Autumn - p36Bill Clinton - p39

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