The hallways

View over the hallways from the closed emergency psychiatric ward of Zurich University Hospital, Switzerland. This is the only roaming space for patients locked in. The patient seen here had restricted schedules and was allowed to leave the ward during the daytime, but had to be back at night. Zurich, Switzerland, 14 August 2018...During the course of a year-long project about bipolar disorder, I was once embedded in the team of the emergency ward of a very large psychiatry hospital. This ward was closed and some patients denied the right to go out, often for their own safety. The patient seen here was in the manic phase of the disorder...Taken as I was embedded in the unit. Photographer did not influence the scene in any way, nor gave directions to anyone (the patient was on her way to her room).