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"Ward 81: Voices" is a collection of works by American female photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) and writer Karen Folger Jacobs (1940–). Mary Ellen Mark is a leading American documentary photographer who deeply connects with people living on the fringes of society, leaving behind numerous masterpieces such as "Streetwise" and "Falkland Road." This work is an expanded and definitive edition of her representative work "Ward 81" (1979), which documented her first full-fledged long-term project, created while living together for about five weeks in 1976 at "Ward 81," a women's closed ward at Oregon State Hospital. In addition to the photographs included in the 1979 edition, it includes many previously unpublished photographs. Furthermore, as the subtitle "Voices" suggests, it also includes interviews with patients, recordings of conversations between Mary Ellen Mark and Jacobs, materials from the time of production, and new essays. By adding the words of those involved and details of the creative process—things that cannot be fully conveyed through photographs alone—the book offers a more three-dimensional picture of each individual's life and emotions, as well as the realities of mental healthcare in America in the 1970s. This is an important book that allows for a deeper understanding of the gaze of Mary Ellen Mark, who continued to observe her subjects without losing sight of their human dignity.