4,224 Comments for Northampton State Hospital

Waffles, anyone?

someone mentioned it earlier i think, but i think it would be a fantastic idea to have a section of your website with a slide show of the pics and music playing during the slide show. when i look at these pictures, i usually have music on as i go through them, really adds another dimension and feel to already awesome photographs. just something to think about...

so much contempt in those dark, circled eyes. what has she done to deserve this?

yeah i agree with benji and the others, what fortitude it must have taken to lay in that filth ridden bath tub. absolutely never would i do that.

i have the urge to wanna be there with her and tell her that she's not alone anymore, and that things will be ok. that's how powerful these shots are.
if only she had a friend..just one friend...

dirty girl.... *cough*

those walls look awesome... imagine going through this place and coming across that! the sheer look of bewliderment on the person's face would be engraved forever on their souls.

I'm having trouble trying to sleep
I'm counting sheep but running out
As time ticks by
And still I try
No rest for crosstops in my mind

On my own... here we go

My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
fucked up and spun out in my room

On my own... here we go

My mind is set on overdrive
The clock is laughing in my face
A crooked spine
My sense's dulled
Passed the point of delerium

On my own... here we go
-Green Day, "Brain Stew"

That is the perfect song for these pictures... you can't argue

what's happen to her life? she's look so elive but i think she had something holding inside of her to make her ..............

Thomas Story Kirkbride was behind building this thing theres a whole history on him at http://www.uchs.net/Hi...ricts/kirkbride.html

the point of no return.

I agree, The Dude...

I'm thinking it would make a good Nightwish album cover... ^^

I read it makes a great cover for an album, it does work that way...great work Motts.

Hail to NY

I live about a three minute walk from the hospital, and have for my whole life. I'm so excited that you have kept its life in these photos, because now that they have begun to renovate it, it does not hold nearly as much history and mystery as it used to.
It kind of disturbs me that Northampton has taken the initiative to disregard all that history, and kind of hide it from us. There are tons of soccer fields that were developed litterally only months after the place closed. Let me tell you how weird it is to be playing a soccer game, and having your teammate kick a ball into a deserted building. Its hard not to feel disrespectful.

this is creepy !!!!! it looks like somthing someone would use to do drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!