4,537 Comments for Pennhurst State School

The wheelchair almost seems dwarfed by the now hidous the wall murals. Very disturbing shot.

its not hard to imagine a child sitting in that chair.

Fantastic Shot! Great Photography. You should enter this shot into a Photography contest!!

each door way seems to lead you further into hell
once again - great shot

How many little hands touched those books and where are they now..............

this picture has a creepy feeling to it, as if some one or something is waiting for just the right time to jump out and scare the hell out of some one (me)
great shot!!!!!!!!

Sadly the condition of the documentry isn't in much better shape than Pennhurst itself, the Audio is impossible to follow at times. I see there is a Pennhurst Documentry in the works, perhaps some restoration will be done.

there is a NPR interview online at :
http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/07/20040708_b_main.asp
Michael D'Antonio and Fred Boyce one the former "State boys" at Fernald are featured, this would be very interesting to anyone who wants to understand better what went on in places like Pennhurst.

Their little souls got up out of the chair and walked away from this place - if only in spirit. Very moving image.

Thanks, yeah that's me trying to light the shot.

It looks like dopey... I feel rather sad now that dopey was hidden by paint from the kids and they got the creepy stuff instead

Your chair shots are worth a million dollars. :-)

What an intriguing shot! Fabulous light!

I was thinking the exact same thing.
Methinks that they should use this room as an interrogation room on CSI instead of the ones that they do use. It might have a higher success rate, methinks.

That is a particularily eerie picture, and it almost looks as if there is a dark figure on the left, which fades off towards the floor.
Very, very nice, indeed.

Wow, I absolutely love this shot, the intermingling of innocence, and corruption.
That wheelchair almost looks scared, as if it's hiding, don't you think so?