Sanatorio Banti

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Abandoned hospital “Sanatorio Banti” on the hills surrounding Florence, Italy 2015
35mm film scan (Fomapan 100)

Psychiatric hospital

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Abandoned psychiatric hospital, Italy 2017
6×4,5 film scan (Ilford FP4)

Psychiatric hospital

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Former psychiatric hospital in Volterra, Italy.
6×6 film scan (Ilford FP4)

Oreste Fernando Nannetti (born in Rome December 31, 1927 – dead in Volterra November 24, 1994) was an inmate of the asylum of Volterra.
He often referred to himself as NOF4 (first letters of his name and 4, his id number in the asylum).
He was born without a father (on documents he had, as father name, “N.N.” – In latin, “Nomen Nescio” unknown name).
His mother abandoned him in an orphanage when he was seven and in 1948 he was on trial for outrage to a policeman and during the trial he plead for insanity.
After this moment he spent his whole life in several insane asylums. In 1958 he was interned in the Volterra asylum where he lived up to his dead in 1994.
In the courtyard of the Ferri pavilion he drawn on the wall of the building a huge graffiti using the buckle of his vest. This graffiti was a symbolic story of his life with several notes of science-fiction. It is considered one of the most important “brut art” work ever done.
Most of the graffiti was removed and now it is in a museum in Volterra.
The asylum is totally abandoned but some parts of the graffiti are still in place, slowly fading in rain and time.

Hospital

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Abandoned hospital, Italy 2015
35mm film scan (Fomapan 100)

NOF4

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Former psychiatric hospital in Volterra, Italy.
6×6 film scan (Ilford FP4)

Oreste Fernando Nannetti (born in Rome December 31, 1927 – dead in Volterra November 24, 1994) was an inmate of the asylum of Volterra.
He often referred to himself as NOF4 (first letters of his name and 4, his id number in the asylum).
He was born without a father (on documents he had, as father name, “N.N.” – In latin, “Nomen Nescio” unknown name).
His mother abandoned him in an orphanage when he was seven and in 1948 he was on trial for outrage to a policeman and during the trial he plead for insanity.
After this moment he spent his whole life in several insane asylums. In 1958 he was interned in the Volterra asylum where he lived up to his dead in 1994.
In the courtyard of the Ferri pavilion he drawn on the wall of the building a huge graffiti using the buckle of his vest. This graffiti was a symbolic story of his life with several notes of science-fiction. It is considered one of the most important “brut art” work ever done.
Most of the graffiti was removed and now it is in a museum in Volterra.
The asylum is totally abandoned but some parts of the graffiti are still in place, slowly fading in rain and time.

Mombello

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abandoned, asylum, decay, film, fp4, hospital, ilford, mombello, pigeoneyes, urbex

Former Psychiatric Hospital, Mombello (Italy)
6×6 film scan (Ilford FP4)

Psychiatric hospital “Giuseppe Antonini”, commonly known as Mombello’s hospital was built in 1863 in Limbiate, close to Milan.

In 1978 a law in Italy (Basaglia’s law due to the name of the doctor who inspired its principles) issued the closure of the psychiatric hospitals and also Mombello was slowly abandoned. Nowdays the area is still abandoned and hugely vandalized.

An inmate of this hospital, dead in 1942, was Benito Albino Dalser. He was the illegitimate son of the italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He was sectioned in the hospital and died in unclear circumstances.

Abandoned hospital

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A small abandoned hospital, somewhere in Italy (2016)
35mm film scan (Ilford FP4)

The garden

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Abandoned hospital, Italy 2015
35mm film scan

Military hospital

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Military hospital, Italy 2015
35mm film scan

Military hospital

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Military hospital, Italy 2015
35mm film scan