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Alex Majoli - GREECE. Leros. Mental Hospital.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Iside the psychiatric hospital. Nikita resolutely refused to wear clothes. His only concession was to cover himself with a bl
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Izabel, one of the Trieste care workers, at home. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros by night. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. The spartan tree. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital. Wandering in front of Pavillion 11. 1994
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital. Wandering in front of Pavillion 11. 1994
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital. Wandering in front of Pavillion 11. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. The psychiatric hospital. Wandering in front of Pavillion 11. 1994
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Ceramic faces. Zoroba is a sculptor who used anything he could find for his work. Later he built his own ceramics workshops a
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. In the Madra. At first, assistants were able only with gestures and hand signals. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital. In the former Madra, Pavillon 16. The Madra was a centre pool where patients were kept until 199
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital. Antonid greets Maurizio after a long absence. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital. Elias hugs a mask inside the sculpture workshop, the mask being a representation of himself. 199
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros.Inside the psychiatric hospital. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. The asylum farmers co-operative provides the major part of the island's fruit and vegetables. Now the patients work up to fou
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Pavli. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. Pavillon 11. Iorgos loves to sing and asks each care worker: "Give me a cigarette, but one w
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Psychiatric hospital. Elias in a void.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. The psychiatric hospital. Cleaning the pavillons. Each domitory, as well as the other rooms in the asylum, was built with fis
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Bleffuti road, at sunset. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. The belt. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Vassili outside his appartment. Since the closure of the pavillon, the patients live four or five to an appartment, with a ca
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Leros beach. A patient and a care worker lie in the sun. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Psychiatric hospital. The closure of pavillon 16. "We closed it and we left at 10.30 am on 6 May 94. Goodbye". 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. A bed for Pavli. The patients usually slept anywhere, sometimes five or six to a bed to bear
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. The hearse. 1994.
Greece. Leros. To carefully shave one patient at a time means a big step towards the reclaiming of one's personality. Previously, shaving was done in groups usi
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. Pavillon 11. The drawings are the work of patients. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital. Lunch. The food was served by hand and eaten by hand. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Feas day. During an excursion on the island, Irgos Geleppu sings and a guard plays the accordion. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric asylum. Nikita plays in the former Madra with Marina, a Trieste care worker. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Funeral. When a patient died, another corpse will have been waiting a week for burial. One corpse was deemed insufficient for
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Vassili in the Platanos Cafe, in the center of the island. Locals were at first wary of the patients, ragarding them as dange
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. Entrance to Pavillon 11. Carnival. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Lakkis harbour, Cristo. He was alone in being able to escape the asylum guards as he pleased; nobody knows how. He has a memo
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Main courtyard of the psychiatric hospital. 1994.
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. Kosta, Pavillion 16. Kosta developed his own method of being cleaned by the guards: he sprea
GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital. Bice, a care worker, hugs a patient. There was once no semblance of affection for the patien
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