Metro Australia — January 2018

(WallPaper) #1

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isn’t one for following traditional narratives. An artist by train
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Building. ‘I always had my own camera,’ he tells me. ‘I loved to
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Rewriting the ‘Haunted’ Narrative


in Florian Habicht’sSpookers


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park situated on the grounds of a former psy-
chiatric hospital, Florian Habicht instead found
himself documenting a homely refuge for in-
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