Chartham Mental Asylum Evaluation

After my two days at Chartham I am very happy with my photographs. Despite the nerves, I'd love to go back for another visit. I think my photos show exactly what I wanted them to; a dirty, dark, derelict hospital, which once upon a time would have been clean and full of life. A modern hospital has to be extremely clean with constant changes in order to keep up to date and treat patients with the best care. My photos completely contradict the rules of cleanliness in a clinical environment. Advances to technology and healthcare left St Augustine's unfit for purpose so the doors were closed on it and it was left to rot. As a result, what would have been a highly ordered place is now in complete chaos, which is shown in my images. Order is still visible in some of my photographs, for instance the curtain tracks marking out bed bays on the ward although this is overwhelmed by decomposition. The building has gained a new purpose as a result of its decay; almost a museum, people want to see old asylums and hospitals as curiosity drives us into such places. Not only has St Augustine's become an 'Urban Explorers' paradise, a graffiti artists blank canvas but also a playground for anyone who visits; everyone makes their own experience which has turned it into a place with no rules and regulations, contradicting the buildings original purpose. To some people this may appear as chaos and to others simply beauty in decay?