Breath Between Seasons.
📷 Laura Anna Rossa
“In the Valley, Flowers Remain”
A portrait of Patrick (59). He knows the names of wildflowers, stamps his feet to call the rain, and says ‘sometimes I play God.’ He speaks with anger about the pills he takes because ‘a king does not take pills.’ Rossa followed him ‘from answer to question, from silence to wisdom,’ learning that strength and vulnerability live side by side.
Original photograph | Laura Anna Rossa
Ai motion | @passitover
Series description
For over 30 years Patrick has lived in De Vallei, ‘The Valley,’ a long-term psychiatric ward for chronic psychosis in the Belgian countryside. He walks in the woods, and since 2024 Rossa has followed him, sometimes bringing her camera, as a gesture to say ‘we are here.’
Each image grew from their time together, which she describes as ‘sharing shadows, grief, light and flowers.’ When he asked Rossa if he was still human, she said: ‘you are the most human person I have met.’
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