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My 5th trip to Northampton State Hospital finally led me to the morgue. It was located in a dark corridor in the basement underneath the main cafeteria which you could only get to through the theater, and I had never been able to find it despite knowing the general location. One of my regrets about…

Urban Exploration was definitely beginning to take over my free time by the time of my fourth visit to Northampton State Hospital. I was heading out to abandoned places essentially every chance I could get. Northampton was a common destination because it was a Kirkbride, it was very photogenic, and because Northampton is a great…

On my third trip to Northampton State Hospital I tried a few surreal photographic techniques…not all of which I am that happy with 20 years later. I have included my original edits as well as a few re-edits I made using modern tools. Lightroom’s AI features, including de-noise and remove, are amazing. Removing graffiti from…

We arrived at NoHo to find the campus shrouded in fog. We worked our way through the North Infirmary before entering the main part of the Kirkbride for the first time. I remember very clearly opening the door and the building “breathing” out on us. This happened most of the times I visited, and made…

Photography, for me, started in Middle School.  My friend signed up for photography class and brought me in to the dark room to check out the prints he was developing from his pinhole camera.  I was instantly hooked.  The smell of the fix, the image slowly coming out in the developer, it was magic.  I…