Monday, May 2, 2011

Can you see the ghost in this picture? Spirits haunt derelict asylum

879557-gladesville-ghosts“They are haunting images of bedlam - an Australian lunatic asylum that opened more than 170 years ago.

An exhibition by photographer Yvette Worboys titled Ghosts has captured eerie images of the former Gladesville Mental Hospital, in Sydney, which opened in November 1838 and closed in 1997.

Worboys, who has lived in the area most of her life, said she was drawn to the partly derelict hospital by its residual energy…”

 

Part of an article from Herald SunContinue reading

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