Lake Alice

Lake Alice, Rangitikei, NZ, Nov 2011: Lake Alice Hospital was a notorious rural psychiatric facility that operated from 1950 up untill it’s closure in the late 1990’s… It was self-sufficient with its own farm, bakery, glass houses and vegetable gardens . It could accomodate up to 900 people in various buildings spread over it’s 56 […]

Slavonia

East Slavonia, Croatia, 2002: On the road to Vukovar, the most devastated city in Europe since World War II. The Balkan’s version of Stalingrad. I was just about to end up in a rather difficult situation… See what happened next… Olympus XA2

Hausing

Horowhenua, NZ Nov 2011: Canon EOS 30D/Canon EF 50 f/1.8 II

Ex Education

Erskine College, Wellington, NZ, Oct 2011: The Convent of the Sacred Heart- or Sacré Coeur- was a Catholic girls boarding school built in 1905/06. From the late 60’s it was known as Erskine College– until it’s fateful closure in 1985.Today only the main building and chapel are in good order. My mother went […]

Wellington, NZ, Oct 2011: Canon EOS 30D/Panagor 200mm

Quarantine

The former Fever/Chest Hospital, Wellington, October 2011: The Fever Hospital was built by the Wellington Hospital Board in 1919 for the treatment of infectious diseases. In the 1940’s tuberculosis broke out so the hospital primarily focused it’s treatment on TB patients. I found out in discussions with my father,that my great Aunt Patricia spent some […]

Underwood

Karori Cemetary, Wellington, October 2011: A venture into Karori cemetary with Simon to do test shots with flash (I had a wedding shoot to pratice for), inevitably ended up in shooting lots of gravestone pictures- in particular angels- of course… Canon EOS 30D/EF 24-105 f4 L IS

Skopje

Skopje, Macedonia, 2002: Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC. Under the Roman’s it was known as Scupi, the Ottoman Turks called it Üsküp during their five hundred year occupation…At the conclusion of the Second World War, Skopje became the capital of the Socialist Federal Republic of Macedonia. The city developed rapidly but […]

Bad Education

Petone, Wellington NZ, Sept 2011: The former Petone College has been abandoned since 1998. It’s an eyesore that has to be seen, to be believed… A full scale high-school- graffitied and decaying, with no hope of redemption… Canon 30D/18-55is

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