Then and Now

While Collins was photographing the abandoned mental asylum for The Trespasser series she decided to research it's history. A trip to the library to view all the files from the entire life of the asylum, which were piled almost ceiling high on a massive table, lead her to finding several photographs of the Cane Hill asylum in it's hey day. Collins was obviously not allowed to have the original images but was able to photocopy them. She then retuened to the assylum to photographed the exact rooms in the abandoned hospital in order to blend the photocopied images with her images to produce a ghostly record of it's past.
Collins image was taken in 2008 but the series as it is now was not completed and shown till 2012 after the asylum was demolished.
All the original photocopied old images of Cain Hill were taken at different periods of its history from 1882 to 1950.