‘Into Oblivion’ Uses Photography to Examine Lives of Dementia Patients

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'Into Oblivion'

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Earlier than she took a single image, the photographer Maja Daniels, 31, spent virtually a 12 months speaking to employees members and kinfolk of sufferers on the St. Thomas de Villeneuve hospital in Bain-de-Bretagne, France.

"I developed a detailed relationship with a few of the members of the family," Ms. Daniels stated. Solely then did she started photographing sufferers within the wards dedicated to dementia care.

Hospital directors "didn't perceive what sorts of photographs would finally be produced," she added. "However they had been eager to open up these doorways." Doorways, within the literal sense, turned the middle of Ms. Daniels's mission, "Into Oblivion." It just lately received a grant from The Bob and Diane Fund, which sponsors visible storytelling about dementia.

"The primary time I visited, I used to be on the opposite facet of the door, and that's what grabbed me — somebody behind the door attempting to get my consideration by waving," Ms. Daniels stated.

"This made me need to examine the area inside, the usage of confinement on a locked ward as a facet of care."

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