A Procession of Them

Eugene Richards

Freelance / The New York Times Magazine

Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico, 1999. At the Ocaranza psychiatric hospital, a 17 year old, who has been temporarily freed from a straitjacket, swallows her whole hand. The girl's only acknowledged therapy is to place her hands under a heat lamp for fifteen minutes.

Eugene Richards, "A Procession of Them," in POYi Archive, Item #43172, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/43172 (accessed November 21, 2024).