Book Signing with Photographer Chris Payne

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Photographer and author Christopher Payne will be at our gallery on 255 Centre Street (10013) for a book signing. Massive state-funded mental hospitals, built to warehouse the mentally ill, were a feature of the American landscape for centuries. Emptied out in the 1970s and 80s, they now sit abandoned, keeping their secrets. Architectural photographer Christopher Payne was granted unprecedented access to document the now-closed institutions over a period of six years, and the result is ASYLUM. Payne