Decades-old photographs reveal the harsh realties women were faced with while living in Oregon's only all-female mental hospital in the 70s - after an award-winning journalist bunked with the patients for weeks to offer the portrayal. The photos would be featured three years in Mark's inaugural project Ward 81, and have since been expanded in a new rerelease tabbed Ward 81: Voices, published by Steidl. Patient Carol S. lies in an single bed in Salem's locked Ward 81. A one-armed patient named Mona is seen striking a pose whilst smoking a cigarette in another striking snap from Ward 81. She told Mark of her desire for change while locked up in the all-female winge: 'I wish somebody’d come and take over this hospital.

Source: Daily Mail April 23, 2023 23:18 UTC