Surrey was home to more mental hospitals than most other areas of England.<\/p>\n
Alana Harris, a historian who teachers at King’s College London, said: “A hundred years ago, these photographs were taken without consent, for purposes of classification and diagnosis and indeed, oftentimes, stigmatisation.”<\/p>\n
As part of the Us and Them project, Freewheelers member Alice Scott paired herself with Rose Harris, who was confined to Manor Hospital, in Epsom, in 1910 and was buried in a pauper burial plot in 1917.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Pete Messer chose to recreate an image of workhouse survivor Frederick Tarrant, who spent 15 years in various asylums.<\/p>\n
The modern photographs, which take eight seconds each to shoot, were taken by Emma Brown, who said: “The magic bit is where the excess silver clears off the plate, it still gets me excited after years of doing this process.”<\/p>\n
The new portraits are paired with the original Victorian photographs to provoke public conversations about discrimination and how disability is understood, especially through visual representations.<\/p>\n
The creative sessions run during the first two weeks of December and link to a high-profile Christie’s auction featuring similar historical images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey was home to more mental hospitals than most other areas of England. Alana Harris, a historian who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-295458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}