christopher payne photography

christopher payne is a photographer that focuses on america's vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. his new book, Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, is the result of a six-year exploration of America’s vast and largely abandoned state mental institutions. to put it simply, CP takes pictures of forgotten, abandoned and neglected places. there is a certain stillness to his work and i find the images haunting. and awesome.
see more images here and purchase the book here.

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