The Old Hospital
Granada’s old hospital stands in a state of abject destitution, broken and dilapidated after many years of neglect. Located on the west side of the city, close to the Masaya highway, this haunting ruin – replete with teeming visceral textures, intriguing shadows and frames – is a free gift to photographers and urban explorers…
Just ask and the guard will happily let you pass.
Go wandering and you’ll find great chambers with only the sky for a roof. Here and there, structures fractured and split, threatening to shiver apart at any moment. Vegetation sprouts wildly from old kitchens, bathrooms and nurseries. Chequered hallways lie exposed to the ferocious sun, all coated in thick, hot, airless dust.
Birds sing.
Insects chatter.
Everywhere beautiful death and oblivion, artfully rendered.
For the hospital’s crumbling walls, overgrown courtyards and desolate wards are resplendent with a very particular type of decay: tropical decay. Here, life is nourished by death, death hungrily devours life. For Latin America is a land of ruin – and in Latin America, ruin is a force as exuberant, wild and wilful as life.
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