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~Hagbard23:iconHagbard23:

Ian Ference  

  • Status: Member
  • Experimental Photographer
  • United States
  • Offline for 4w 1d 18h 7m 17s
  • Deviant since Dec 14, 2005, 9:49 PM
  • 238 Deviations
  • 5 Scraps [browse]
  • 129 Deviation Comments
  • 29 Deviant Comments
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  • 22 Forum Posts
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Devious Information

  • Current Age: 26
  • Current Residence: Central New Jersey
  • Interests: Abandoned buildings. The history of psychiatric hospital architecture.
  • Favourite movie: Once Upon a Time in the West, Evil Dead II, Harold and Maude
  • Favourite band or musician: Leonard Cohen. Nick Cave. Johnny Cash. Priestess. Sage Francis.
  • Favourite genre of music: Non-emo.
  • Favourite artist: Henry Hobson Richardson. Diane Arbus.
  • Favourite poet or writer: Haruki Murakami, Hermann Hesse, Leonard Cohen
  • Favourite photographer: Diane Arbus, Joel-Peter Witkin & Robert Mapplethorpe.
  • Favourite style or digital art: Film photography.
  • Operating System: Scalpel, candlelight, a symphony by Wagner
  • Shell of choice: Conch.
  • Favourite game: Go Fish.
  • Personal Quote: "I measure my PhotoFlo!"
  • Tools of the Trade: Vintage cameras. No autofocus. No digital.

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Devious Comments

~PseudoSolitude:iconPseudoSolitude: May 4, 2008, 12:59:50 AM Mood: Love
amazing gallery you have! i'm majoring in criminal/clinical psychology, so i might be IN one...not being part of the unnecessary and disturbing experiments of course...still, awesome collection

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Funny how we laugh at death, but cower at its face.
~MalkavianDreams:iconMalkavianDreams: Feb 19, 2008, 10:27:44 AM
Lovely gallery. Always had a passion for exploring the forgotten. I look foward to seeing more of you work =)

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Blow your mind, smoke gunpowder.
~hscottbrown:iconhscottbrown: Jan 16, 2008, 5:14:17 PM
Ian, these are wonderful pictures......im keen to talk to you about them in connection with my own MA studies.

please get in touch

hscottbrown@gmail.com

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Carpe Diem
~fragilesandy:iconfragilesandy: Jan 9, 2008, 4:13:40 PM
Adding you to my watch! Your photos are so interesting.
*AsylumWitch:iconAsylumWitch: Dec 16, 2007, 11:51:21 PM
You are wonderfully talented. I simply love your entire gallery. :heart:

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"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints."

My Gallery [link]
~littleweeds-seed:iconlittleweeds-seed: Aug 23, 2007, 9:42:03 AM
a gallery of derilict lavatories at [link]

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a weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place
~TheMasterGerbil:iconTheMasterGerbil: Jul 25, 2007, 10:15:07 PM
I completely love your photos!

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:peace: :plug:
~Mr-Rockme:iconMr-Rockme: Jul 17, 2007, 1:48:46 PM Mood: Passionate
I feel in love with your photos... Extremely wonderful!
~Beer-Bottle-Photo:iconBeer-Bottle-Photo: Jun 17, 2007, 12:49:07 AM
hey man

love your work great asylum stuff :)

much love lausxx
*jdyez:iconjdyez: Jun 14, 2007, 12:23:55 PM
thanks for faving Bush chested and I'm sure the president would thank you as well if only he knew....

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"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who divide people into two kinds of people, and those who don't. Which are you?"
~gabyhenri:icongabyhenri: Jun 14, 2007, 3:59:19 AM Mood: Joy
I like your gallery very much, especially the pictures you made of abandoned places...great work...
~gabyhenri:icongabyhenri: Jun 14, 2007, 3:59:17 AM Mood: Joy
I like your gallery very much, especially the pictures you made of abandoned places...great work...
~breetard--x:iconbreetard--x: Jun 12, 2007, 10:10:42 PM
your work is amazing

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~xxDeceptaconxx:iconxxDeceptaconxx: May 20, 2007, 5:35:03 PM
you have such an interesting gallery! i wish i was more adventurous and daring. if only there were places such as yours right in my backyard.
~CedricsSecret:iconCedricsSecret: May 18, 2007, 5:39:56 PM
Where do you find these places!?
:heart: Amazing!

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Bella: "You know when this is over we really should have angry sex..."
Dean: "....Don't objectify me."
~Mavnor:iconMavnor: May 8, 2007, 1:15:02 PM
Your galllery's kickin ass. ; o

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To do is to be (Socrates).
To be is to do (Plato).
Do be do be do. (Sinatra).

"God is dead" - Nietzsche 1882
"Nietzsche is dead" - God 1900

"Brian: You are all individuals!
The Crowd: We are all individuals!
Man in crowd: I'm not. "
*Supermalade:iconSupermalade: Apr 27, 2007, 1:14:35 AM Mood: Adoration
I love all your pic' !!
Very very beautiful !
I want to go in the deserted hospital psychiatric... wahou good work.
*abra4leaf:iconabra4leaf: Apr 20, 2007, 4:17:54 PM Mood: Wow!
You have an amazing gallery.

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Proud member of RawEmotion Poetry Club
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and Fire-Society
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~0h-0h--audi0:icon0h-0h--audi0: Apr 20, 2007, 12:39:41 AM
quite an amazing gallery you have.
~imskippingbeats:iconimskippingbeats: Apr 10, 2007, 7:51:55 PM
yeah i usually go with one or two people, i could never go alone, the houses we go to give you eerie feelings, almost like somethings constantly behind you, and what not. and no, falling through sucks, so be careful :D
~Hagbard23:iconHagbard23: Apr 10, 2007, 12:21:50 PM
Most of the locations pictured are not actually in the Garden State. I travel all over the Eastern half of the country in search of asylums and hospitals. As for going alone, about a third of these were taken when "going it alone", but typically I go with another person or two. Wouldn't wanna fall through a collapsed floor by onesself, now would we? :)
~Hagbard23:iconHagbard23: Apr 10, 2007, 12:20:18 PM
Actually, I have several dozen asylums and sanitoriums pictured in my gallery... I WISH it were all in one place, preferably within walking distance of my house... ;)
~imskippingbeats:iconimskippingbeats: Apr 9, 2007, 6:41:49 PM
so is there a ton of abandoned buildings in NJ, cause i love the photography youve done and wouldnt mind visiting these places.

do you go alone? id be too scared, lol.
~yellownurse:iconyellownurse: Apr 9, 2007, 2:10:37 PM
hi there! really loved your gallery :love: Where is this asylum? I 'v seen one, also abandoned, in Corfu :yum: