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Distro - GREECE. 1994. Mental Hospital on Leros. 

Alex Majoli 

In 1994, the Observer Newspaper in London ran a piece on the Psychiatric Hospital on the Greek Island of Leros. It was said to have been run by staff who were more like prison officers than care workers and the patients were housed in a building which had previously been used to jail political prisoners. The hospital became known for taking the worst cases of psychiatric patients from the entire country. Inside the hospital you were said not to live, but to survive. Death came first from disease followed closely by suicide. Violence was the only tool of communication between 'guards' and patients.... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994. 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Leros. 1994.
A patient and a care worker lie in the... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital.... 

Alex Majoli 1994

Greece. Leros. To carefully shave one patient at a time means... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994. Inside the psychiatric... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital.... 

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GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric asylum.... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Funeral. When a patient died,... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital.... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Feas day. During an excursion... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Main courtyard of the psychiatric... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Lakkis harbour, Cristo. He... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital.... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Psychiatric hospital. The... 

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GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. 1994. 

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GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. The hearse. 1994.

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Inside the psychiatric hospital.... 

Alex Majoli 1994

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Vassili in the Platanos Cafe,... 

Alex Majoli 1995

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Psychiatric hospital. Leros. 1995.... 

Alex Majoli 1995

Greece. Leros. Zorba is a sculptor; during periods of isolation... 

Alex Majoli 1995

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Home. 1995. 

Alex Majoli 1995

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Xerocampos church by night.... 

Alex Majoli 1995

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. At the psychiatric hospital.... 

Alex Majoli 1995

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Aghia Marina by night. 1995.... 

Alex Majoli 1995

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. Izabel's house, Nikos during... 

Alex Majoli 1995

GREECE. Dodecanese islands. Leros. A present for me. 1995. 
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