At the end of the 19th Century Craiglockhart was built as a Hydropathic centre for water therapies and healing of various illnesses. At the start of World War I the building was requisitioned and turned into a military hospital for the treatment of sick officers, more precisely those suffering from neurasthenia or shell shock.The story of the patients during wartime is a horrific one and the outcome of their healing is tragically ironic. The pool became a tool of war where men wandered, tormented by nightmares and hallucinations, shocked and confused, unable to forget the flashes and blasts, the mud and the blood, the memories of mutilated and dead friends.
The images are simple, and yet very dark and atmospheric due to the lighting. They are also alot different to the rest of the stuff ive been looking at! I like how again this project relates to the past and history, which is why i looked at it in the first place.
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