Riverview 43 - West Lawn Corner 1
MattKing

Riverview 43 - West Lawn Corner 1

A corner of the closed down West Lawn building - formerly part of Riverview hospital. -43c-2022-02-21b
Location
Riverview Lands, Coquitlam, BC
Equipment Used
Mamiya 645 Pro with 45mm N lens
Exposure
sunlight
Film & Developer
T-Max 100 in replenished X-Tol
Paper & Developer
scanned for now
Lens Filter
none
Digital Post Processing Details
resized and appropriate tweaks to contrast and density, plus necessary sharpening
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Matthew King
That would be a great place to roam around and shoot. Can you get inside?
 
No.
Although parts of the site are available for rental by the film making world. A lot of movies and television series have used it.
The site still has some treatment facilities in a portion of the land, along with all the closed buildings.
 
Strangely enough the bright sunshine adds to the sombre almost disturbing air this building creates The scan's brown sepia look helps a lot here

If you print it Matt, toning along these lines might be worthwhile
 
I've actually started posting almost all my scans with at least some warming of tone. It matches what I usually do with prints, and it seems to really improve how images uploaded to Photrio appear on the screen - at least my screens.
 
Beautiful. These places have a lot of stories. I love the shadows of the tree branches. Well done.
 
Many of those stories are very sad - the hospital was (and to a small extent remains) a facility for the mentally ill.
I have memories of trying to help a client who spent time in treatment there. They are sad memories, of a frustrating situation.
 
I live a couple of miles from the (former) village of Oakdale, near Iowa City. This was the site of the state Tuberculosis hospital. I've made several photos of the dormitories and some of the other buildings. I'm glad I took some of these because in the last couple years several of these buildings were demolished. There remains a small power plant, what was a dairy barn, and several other buildings. The old inter-urban electric trolley went through the complex, the car operator would announce the approach so riders could cover their face with complementary gauze masks. Somethings don't change.
 

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