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Abandoned Plantation Estate 

Virginia (2014)

Shortly after the 2006 Silent Hill film was released Premiere Props auctioned off a load of “screen used” props from the movie. Included in their large sale were several “Official Silent Hill Tourism Maps” that featured a map of Silent Hill on one side and West Virginia map on the other listing fun activities to do in Silent Hill during the 70′s.

For years I wanted to take a peek at the interior of the brochure as the pictures Premiere Props provided were too small to really make out much the details. Luckily, I was able to obtain a map prop from a follow collector for my own collection last week and thought it would be cool to scan it and share the contents online!

You can check out the contents of the map and see some of my own impression over in the

Victory Theater

Silent Mushroom

I am loathe to use the word “creepy” when discussing the abandoned asylums I regularly photograph.  Most of them are beautiful, and there is more optimism than gloom.  But sometimes, it’s just the best word for a specific moment - like when I came up a staircase in the wards of Worcester State Hospital in 2008 and saw this pram, dimly illuminated by the light coming from a crack in a board at the top of the staircase.  Who, on the wards of an asylum for the long-term care of the seriously insane, would have need of a baby carriage?  Especially on the outer wards, reserved for the chronic and violent patients?  Why was this artifact here?  Imagining a baby in the asylum I have always considered among the most dismal - for the experiments performed in the basement above all - was an unnerving thought, and the discovery of a tiny tricycle later on in the day did nothing to alleviate the unease.

The Kawaminami Shipyard in the Imari Harbour in the Saga prefecture of Japan. It was originally a glass factory that processed raw materials brought in from the Middle East by boat. Sometime during the Second Sino - Japanese War it was converted to a ship building industrial site and then to an ammunition creating site.