Psychiatry

Wolfram Scheible Fotografie

Wolfram Scheible Fotografie

Fotograf aus Stuttgart

What are the limits of the norm? Why does a person become a danger to himself? Why does ‘different’ seem dangerous? What can be learned from extremes? For me, the doors to psychiatry also opened a way to face the often insane parts of our normality with calmness and courage.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: One patient was fixed with straps at her own request. She

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: One patient was fixed with straps at her own request. She

Patient fixed in bed under supervision.

Fixation in bed.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A patient brought a sick bird to her room in the closed ward. A little later it dies.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A patient brought a sick bird to her room in the closed ward. A little later it dies.

A patient brought a sick bird to her room in the closed ward.

A patient brought a sick bird to the closed ward.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A schizophrenic patient on the closed ward. There

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A schizophrenic patient on the closed ward. There

A schizophrenic patient in the closed ward with a fly on her back.

A schizophrenic patient on the closed ward.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: The pictures were taken down in the smoking room of the ward because a dangerous patient could use them as a weapon. You can see the traces of smoke on the wall.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: The pictures were taken down in the smoking room of the ward because a dangerous patient could use them as a weapon. You can see the traces of smoke on the wall.

The pictures were taken down in the smoking room of the ward because a dangerous patient could use them as a weapon.

In the smoking room of the station the traces are visible.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A female patient wears a towel as head protection and looks through a pane of bullet-proof glass into the staff

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A female patient wears a towel as head protection and looks through a pane of bullet-proof glass into the staff

A female patient with a towel on her head looks through a pane of bullet-proof glass into the staff's duty room.

a female patient is wearing a towel on her head.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: This patient has often escaped from the closed ward through the slanted window in her room.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: This patient has often escaped from the closed ward through the slanted window in her room.

A patient climbs through the slanted window in her room of the closed ward.

A patient climbs through a slanted window on the closed ward.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: The entrance door to a closed station shows clear traces of the keys due to the constant unlocking and locking.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: The entrance door to a closed station shows clear traces of the keys due to the constant unlocking and locking.

The entrance door to a closed station shows clear traces of the keys.

The entrance door to a closed station.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A patient in the closed ward receives a sedative injection from the staff.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A patient in the closed ward receives a sedative injection from the staff.

A patient on the closed ward is given a sedative injection.

Sedative injection for a patient in the closed ward.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: Several nurses carry a patient of the closed ward to her room after she has attacked people.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: Several nurses carry a patient of the closed ward to her room after she has attacked people.

Several nurses carry a patient of the closed ward to her room after she has attacked people.

Several nurses carry a patient of the closed ward to her room.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A male patient is in bed. He is wearing a necklace with a piece of jewellery in the shape of a razor blade. On his neck are the traces of a rope with which he tried to kill himself.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A male patient is in bed. He is wearing a necklace with a piece of jewellery in the shape of a razor blade. On his neck are the traces of a rope with which he tried to kill himself.

A male patient is in bed. On his neck are the traces of a rope with which he tried to kill himself.

A male patient tried to kill himself with a rope around his neck.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: View from the duty room to a patient

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: View from the duty room to a patient

View from the duty room to a patient bed, which is located in the corridor for monitoring.

View from the duty room to a bed that is placed in the corridor for surveillance.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A male patient is presented with a declaration of consent for his treatment on the closed ward.

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A male patient is presented with a declaration of consent for his treatment on the closed ward.

A patient is presented with a declaration of consent for treatment on the closed ward.

Patient with consent for his treatment on the closed ward.

Series

Wolfram Scheible Fotografie

Wolfram Scheible Fotografie

Fotograf aus Stuttgart

One of the greatest challenges in photography is the creation of a photo series. Each individual photo should reach a consistently high level and have an expression that is unique to it, yet with the next picture continue along a common path. The best way to achieve this is to be flexible, to deviate at any time from the path that you originally imagined as the solution. An apparent contradiction, but good photos can be surprising.

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Aerial and Drone photography: editorial photography: Two firefighters in their fire engine on the nightly drive with blue lights.

Fire Department

Aerial and Drone photography: editorial photography: The doll of an astronaut is above the entrance to the Kennedy Space Center in the blue sky.

Kennedy Space Center

Aerial and Drone photography: editorial photography: Power: A photo series of people doing sports. Sweat and happiness unite in their faces.

Show of Strength

editorial photography at a psychiatric ward: A male patient is in bed. He is wearing a necklace with a piece of jewellery in the shape of a razor blade. On his neck are the traces of a rope with which he tried to kill himself.

Psychiatry

Aerial and Drone photography: travel photography: Mauritius: An overloaded truck transports harvested sugar cane to the factory.

Mauritius

Aerial and Drone photography: Black and white reportage photography at various workplaces in the early nineties: A plumber climbs into the wall cupboard of a typical old Berlin backyard apartment to repair a sewage pipe.

Work

Aerial and Drone photography: Reportage photography on slide film in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, USA: An abandoned Indian tent in a forest where members of the American Indian Movement meet.

Lakota Nation

Aerial and Drone photography: Editorial photography at the Salvation Army: Two women in white aprons serve soup to the needy. Above the window to the kitchen hangs a picture of a beautiful alpine landscape.

Salvation Army

Aerial and Drone photography: Reportage photographyGDR border opening in 1989: Vehicles from the GDR drive across the open border at the Helmstedt/Marienborn border crossing and are greeted by waving West Germans.Editorial photography: GDR border opening in 1989: Vehicles from the GDR drive across the open border at the Helmstedt/Marienborn border crossing and are greeted by waving West Germans.

Fall of the Wall