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| ‘Into Oblivion’ Uses Photography to Examine Lives of Dementia Patients | ‘Into Oblivion’ Uses Photography to Examine Lives of Dementia Patients |
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| Before she took a single picture, the photographer Maja Daniels, 31, spent almost a year talking to staff members and relatives of patients at the St. Thomas de Villeneuve hospital in Bain-de-Bretagne, France. | |
| “I developed a close relationship with some of the family members,” Ms. Daniels said. Only then did she began photographing patients in the wards devoted to dementia care. | |
| Hospital administrators “didn’t understand what kinds of images would eventually be produced,” she added. “But they were keen to open up those doors.” | |
| Doors, in the literal sense, became the center of Ms. Daniels’s project, “Into Oblivion.” It recently won a grant from The Bob and Diane Fund, which sponsors visual storytelling about dementia. | Doors, in the literal sense, became the center of Ms. Daniels’s project, “Into Oblivion.” It recently won a grant from The Bob and Diane Fund, which sponsors visual storytelling about dementia. |
| “The first time I visited, I was on the other side of the door, and that is what grabbed me — someone behind the door trying to get my attention by waving,” Ms. Daniels said. | |
| “This made me want to investigate the space within, the use of confinement on a locked ward as an aspect of care.” |