Title: Military Hospital

Photographer/s: Claudia Heinermann
Introduction Albert Van Der Weide

Date of publication: June, 2009

Place of publication: Netherlands

Dimensions: 25 x 17 cm

Edition size: 500

Type of binding: Hard Cover, bound

Number of pages: 36

Type of paper: Eurobulk

Number of pictures: 33

Type of printing: offset

Printer: Slinger

Publisher: Self Published

Designer: Tanja Nowak

Editor: Claudia Heinermann

Language: English

ISBN: 978-90-814089-2-9

Category: Photobook

Price: €15,95

Summary: Military Hospital is a photo book about an abandoned military hospital in Belgium, Ostend. The Belgian government built the large Hospital in 1913. It fulfilled a range of functions during two world wars, from caring to the wounded to a storage site under the control of the Germans. After the liberation of 1944,the British used it to care for wounded Canadian, British and Polish soldiers. It was returned to the Belgian authority in 1946 and became a Military Hospital during a long period of peace. The complex have stood empty since 1993. It gradually became a lonely and quiet place for people who inhabit the ragged edges of society. And it became the domein of animals that live and die in their own rythm. The buildings have deteriorated to become finally and definitly part of our collective history.

Limited Editon of 500 copies

Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 27.07. 1967, Iserlohn Germany

Website: www.claudiaheinermann.nl

Donated by: Claudia Heinermann

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