2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

I used to ride a similar bike (had a squarer seat than this one). It was a friend of mines, since I would never be allowed to ride a boys bike at my house!

These pictures often remind me that but for the grace of god goes I...

*blushes*

I would wash it first, but hanging up after all these years, it might be a bit dry-rotted, and fall apart in the washer. (LOL)

sadly, i would actually wear that.

unsettling, almost gives a human quality to the otherwise cold and hostile surroundings.

Agreed with everyone else - the image evokes curiosity yet fear in the viewer, with the the weathered stairs giving the perfect descent into the basement which has an almost unhealthy greeen glow to it.

priscilla, you prolly meant anna. :-)

Sorry to rain on this gloomy parade, but I have worked with folks with handicaps who grew up in institutions and folks with handicaps who grew up in their own homes and I think you would be hard pressed to find a difference. It's the environment and the people who are in it. There are wonderful places that are overcrowded & poorly staffed and there are terrible places that have the correct "numbers" but horrid staff.

Sorry - that's enough. Short soap box tonight. :-)

Em . . . . . . Well . . . . .

Ah, fergit it. :-)

Well, bless you, StareGirl! It's a field like no other. No one outside understands it, but I wouldn't do anything else if they paid me. Which they would, but I would still rather do this. ;-)

woow!!!!!! i really love the colors i wish i had the same pretty color in my door oh and by the way i love the way you said that comment lynne

The mid - tone colour { British spelling} is perfect for emphasising the almost sombre feel the shot exhibits, with the sheet laid on it suggesting that it is concealing something, or someone, inside.

The dust provides a sense of age immediately. Even more so, this shot starkly illustrates the absence of privacy and dignity of which we all take for granted in such a situation. The most disturbing aspect is that children used them, at such a vulnerable time of life, they were almost de- humanised. We should be grateful that Motts successfully exposes this flaw, albeit used years ago, but nonethless questions the pleasent veneer that the place must have had. The very fact that lawsuits were filed proves my point. I wonder how these children turned out to be ?

A very evocative shot, the position of the bike - like some kids just got of it, matched with the bench seen in the background, acting as examples of former civilisation. However, the building that encloses this playground seems entrapping, like the innocence of the children was corrupted, with the contrast of the blue sky offering the only sense of freedom to aspire to.

In my opinion, one of Mott's best shots throughout all locations covered.

Truly a suggestive, deep, and atmospheric shot.

Agreed, bland and empty but far from uninteresting. Just imagine some kid in here living the effects of being confined in this very room, it being his only area of privacy in the place he considered home - you can almost feel the unhappiness and instability in photographs such as these, executed so precisely and effectively by Motts