Tag: Christopher Payne

  • Christopher Payne: North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City

    Christopher Payne: North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in New York City

    Photos of the Mysterious New York City Island You’ve Never Heard Of North Brother Island is a secret hiding in plain sight. Located in New York’s East River, it was once an important part of the city’s infrastructure…. via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/05/14/christopher_payne_photographs_north_brother_island_in_his_book_north_brother.html North Brother Island is a secret hiding in plain sight. Located in New…

  • Showcase: Emptied but Still Secret – Lens

    If one hears ghostlike murmurs while looking through Christopher Payne’s photographs in “Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals,” it may be because the people who once occupied these imposing and forbidding places are still among us. But they no longer dwell within the fortresses — or were they sanctuaries? — into which…