4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

Kinda of scary

Kinda of spooky.

What can I say wonderful.

Great photography

It is a very beautiful place and very interesting.

Jeez, you'd think old man Freddy Krueger would work in there. But really it's awesome.

This feels very much like that corridor in the movie "Girl, interrupted". Sweet!

wow, don't slide down that one. Get a big ouch and the end!

Hey Mr. Mott's, honestly now, have you ever been a place where you are taking photo's and literitly felt like you just shouldn't be there. No I don't mean security wise. Just that feeling like, you just should be there and the hair stands up on the back of your neck. And if so which places were they if you have the time or care to share. Just curious. Thanks again for your amazing stuff! You rock!

If you haven't seen The Jacket you must, you'll definately have the feeling of what it was like in those body fridges. Good movie! Made me think alot about, of all the places Motts has gone to photograph.

Often, the administration would have the patients print out hospital letterhead and medical journals, so the asylum could make profit from free labour. Sometimes, the patients were allowed to utilise the presses for their own personal newsletters that they would distribute to their companions. Often this turned out to be insane paranoic ramblings, but one or two "submissions" would contain sane, articulate, and pained expressions about the life others consider insane. The newsletters found were usually confiscated and filed for analysis. Thus, any patients who wanted to submit anything used pseudonyms; The Blonde, Purple Condition, and 57-11.
Just an interesting fact or two I thought you might enjoy.

Looks like an Edward Gorey engraving.

I'll tell ya, I definitely wouldn't mind dancing in here.

beautiful

Nice dutch angle
gives an air of desperation