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A Photographer Spent 18 Months Documenting an LA Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s

3 November 2025 at 18:42

Black-and-white photo showing a man in a hospital gown tied to a chair, looking distressed, and another close-up of a man pinching his nose, appearing stressed or emotional.

In 1979, photographer Merrick Morton (@merrickmortonphoto) received a California state grant to document the Volunteer Program at a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles, a project that led him to return again and again over the next year and a half.

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