When i was 16 or 17 a girl I really liked took me to this abandoned hospital in her hometown called Henryton. I’ve been in small abandonments before just for fun but this was a whole complex and i was hooked from the start. This was a pretty well known spot and it was heavily vandalized, but for someone who’d never actively explored or seen anything like it at the time, it was new and exciting. It felt like a giant post-apocalyptic playground and i had free reign. While wandering around taking photos, i felt a disconnection from the rest of the world that i’d never really felt before being a city kid. After leaving i started to get into the historical aspect of it. i researched it’s history, looked up archival photos from when it was active and got a sense of what it was like when it was active. Since then i’ve been across the country and even to Europe photographing and exploring old structures and preserving them in pictures and i don’t plan on stopping.