‘EXIT’
I’ve taken to using the back stairs as opposed to the hospital elevators. I meet a few people on the stairs. Staff in the main but also visitors who can’t wait for the three working visitor elevators. The staircase is full of echoes and reverberations. A place of spirits and incantations. Words muttered under the breath, tears.

an unseen voice
“Don’t worry dad she’ll be out
before Christmas”

Paul Conneally
December 2nd 2019

Photograph: ‘Exit’ from the ongoing series of photographs taken in the liminal spaces within and around The Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield.