Daily Life, 3rd prize
Gerlo Beernink
NFK
NFK
01 January, 1990
Forty female patients from the Second Ward spend most of the day locked up together in a 10 4-meter space. Psychiatric patients like the 1,300 living on the island of Leros often live in degrading conditions.
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