É a loucura (#4)

“It's madness"

"Society does not understand, nor does it accept it. We prefer to see it marginalized in hospitals, closed off in a world of shadows and fear." (article published in Realidade magazine, June of 1968, with text by Norma Freire)

The images portray the isolation and abandonment which patients experience at the Juqueri Psychiatric Hospital, then the main treatment facility for mental illness in the state of São Paulo. It is likely that Andujar took the photos in 1963, years before the publication of this article.