{"id":608605,"date":"2025-12-03T02:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608605\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:05:14","slug":"leatherhead-disability-group-recreates-victorian-hospital-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/608605\/","title":{"rendered":"Leatherhead disability group recreates Victorian hospital images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey was home to more mental hospitals than most other areas of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alana Harris, a historian who teachers at King&#8217;s College London, said: &#8220;A hundred years ago, these photographs were taken without consent, for purposes of classification and diagnosis and indeed, oftentimes, stigmatisation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Pete Messer chose to recreate an image of workhouse survivor Frederick Tarrant, who spent 15 years in various asylums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The modern photographs, which take eight seconds each to shoot, were taken by Emma Brown, who said: &#8220;The magic bit is where the excess silver clears off the plate, it still gets me excited after years of doing this process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The creative sessions run during the first two weeks of December and link to a high-profile Christie&#8217;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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-608605","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-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}