/Bretton Knapik
Bretton Knapik
Lift the Veil
Inspired by: Shelley Reed, Predator/Prey (after Oudry)
photography
24″ x 17″
2023
Lift the Veil was taken at the Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford, CT. Originally established to treat children with tuberculosis, eventually the sanatorium served handicapped adults and the elderly. Due to mistreatment of patients, it was closed in 1996. Shelly Reid’s Predator/Prey spoke to me on two levels. She used black and white for intensity. In my first photo, the building is shown only in silhouette, hiding in the truth and in the second one, it’s only after the light is shown, that we see what it really is. I also see the sanatorium as the predator and the patients their prey.