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Stone Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, a stone cottage sits low against open grassland, its rough-cut walls catching.

01 A Place to Call HomeRural New South Wales and ACT2016 - 2019

ISO 1002sf/9.014mm

Series · 59 prints

A Place to Call Home

Photographed 2016 - 2019

Frames 59

Camera NIKON Z 7 · NIKON D810 · NIKON D850

Location Rural New South Wales and ACT, Australia

Status Abandoned; various states of decay

01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

A series of rural homesteads from the Snowy Monaro region of southern New South Wales, with a few from the Hunter Valley. Most were family homes left behind when a generation moved to town; others when the land could no longer be worked. The buildings are smaller than the industrial sites that anchor most of Lost Collective and tend to be older. Most are timber-framed.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

Hand-signed limited editions, printed from the original RAW file. Editions run from 100 down to 25 and are not reissued once they sell through.

Stone Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, a stone cottage sits low against open grassland, its rough-cut walls catching.

Stone Drover's Hut

House On The Hill at A Place to Call Home, a single concrete structure sits on an exposed ridge above the Snowy Mountains.

House On The Hill

Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.

Gunningrah Drover's Hut

Timber Weatherboards at A Place to Call Home, an early 20th century home just outside of Cathcart.

Timber Weatherboards

Home On the Range at A Place to Call Home, a long-vacant, lone farm cottage sits in a field beneath a distant rain cloud.

Home On the Range

Chakola Shack at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard shack sits low against a grassy ridge near Bunyan, south of Canberra.

Candelo Hills at A Place to Call Home, it looks as though the small balcony on the front is slowly beginning to fall.

Numbla Vale Cottages & Woolshed at A Place to Call Home, a flock of birds flying above a cluster of farm workers cottages.

Numbla Vale Cottages & Woolshed

Dalgety Homestead at A Place to Call Home, a weathered cottage perched atop a gentle hill in Dalgety.

Dalgety Homestead

Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.

Sheep By The Porch

Matong Hut at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard farmhouse sits low in open green paddock.

Bemboka Blues at A Place to Call Home, this tired, weatherboard home cuts a lonely figure amongst a vast landscape before.

Wolumla Sunset at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard cottage sits on a grass ridge outside Wolumla, south of Bega.

Dalgety Blues at A Place to Call Home, a small rural cottage on the Dalgety roadside with ever-encroaching vegetation.

Springfield Drovers Hut at A Place to Call Home, a single corrugated iron hut sits low in open grassland.

Springfield Drovers Hut

Delegate Shearers Front at A Place to Call Home, part of a historic shearing complex on the edge of Delegate, not far.

Delegate Shearers Front

Rusted Roof at A Place to Call Home, this scene, set before imposing mature pine trees looks like it may have been a house.

Hunter Hut at A Place to Call Home, a small timber and corrugated iron hut sits at the edge of a grass paddock in late.

Mogilla Roadside at A Place to Call Home, it's probably a little difficult to see, but there's a large shrub with pink.

Mogilla Roadside

Shearers Quarters at A Place to Call Home, a low timber homestead sits against a bare hillside in rural New South Wales.

Shearers Quarters

Talbots Place at A Place to Call Home, a pale blue corrugated iron shed sits in overgrown grass thick with yellow.

The Dragon Inn at A Place to Call Home, the historic Dragon Inn viewed across a field in Cathcart.

Numbla Vale Buildings at A Place to Call Home, a cluster of buildings sits on a green rise under heavy, layered cloud.

Numbla Vale Buildings

Cattle Yard at A Place to Call Home, a disused cattle yard¬†on the side of Mt Darragh Road.

Brooding Skies at A Place to Call Home, a simple, abandoned fibro farmhouse near Nimmitabel, shot with an afternoon summer.

Nissen Hut Barn at A Place to Call Home, an old Nissen Hut which has found a new life as a farm shed.

Nissen Hut Barn

Farmstead at A Place to Call Home, a corrugated iron homestead and outbuildings sit low on bare ground, flanked by a single.

Lochview Cottage at A Place to Call Home, a small weatherboard cottage sits low in a flat green clearing, backed by dense.

Lochview Cottage

Farm Shed at A Place to Call Home, shot somewhere near Mount Darragh.

Overgrowth at A Place to Call Home, this home, shot on the roadside around Mount Darragh, is barely able to peek.

Delegate Shack at A Place to Call Home, a tiny shack located in the small rural town of Delegate.

Cathcart Corner at A Place to Call Home, an old, red-roofed timber weatherboard house on the corner of a Cathcart Street.

Cathcart Corner

Hunter Hiding at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard farmhouse sits back from the road edge, half-swallowed by dense green.

Wyndam Home at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard homestead sits low in dry grass, its hipped roof a patchwork of rust.

Rocky Hall Hills Hut at A Place to Call Home, a small rural structure sits on a low green rise near Rocky Hall Hills.

Rocky Hall Hills Hut

Abattoir Managers Quarters at A Place to Call Home, this home is the former residence of the Nimmitabel Meatworks manager.

Abattoir Managers Quarters

Tin Drovers Hut at A Place to Call Home, a corrugated iron hut sits low in open bushland, its doorway dark and unframed.

Tin Drovers Hut

Old Timber Home at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard cottage sits low in the grass, half-swallowed by mature fruit trees.

Old Timber Home

Boco Homestead at A Place to Call Home, an abandoned weatherboard farmstesd perched on a hillside.

Home Amongst The Gums at A Place to Call Home, a small corrugated iron hut sits low in open grassland, backed by a scatter.

Home Amongst The Gums

Dalgety Valley at A Place to Call Home, a more modern-looking farm ruin set amongst the rural Dalgety landscape.

Jimenbuen Ruins at A Place to Call Home, a derelict farmhouse sits on open green pasture near Jimenbuen in rural New South.

Jimenbuen Ruins

Numbla Vale Cottage at A Place to Call Home, a stone cottage sits low in open pastoral country near Numbla Vale, south-east.

Numbla Vale Cottage

Hunter Shack at A Place to Call Home, a single-storey weatherboard building sits low in a clearing of dry grass and thistles.

Ando Shack at A Place to Call Home, a small ruined shack around Ando.

Reclaimed Home at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard farmhouse sits low in a valley of green pasture, half-swallowed.

Dalgety Stone Shearers Quarters at A Place to Call Home, a beautiful old stone shearers residence set off in the distance.

Dalgety Stone Shearers Quarters

Dalgety Down The Range at A Place to Call Home, a small stone hut sitting alone on a grassy plain which extends well.

Dalgety Down The Range

Stone Home Ruins at A Place to Call Home, a stone cottage stands roofless in green pastoral land, its thick walls still.

Stone Home Ruins

Delegate Shearers Rear at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard cottage sits raised on timber stumps in dry pastoral land.

Delegate Shearers Rear

Hunter Homestead at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard farmhouse sits low in open paddock, its hip roof a patchwork.

Hunter Homestead

Jindabyne Hut at A Place to Call Home, a stone cottage sits low in open pastoral land near Jindabyne.

Snowy River Shearers Quarters at A Place to Call Home, a low timber and corrugated iron shearing shed sits behind steel.

Snowy River Shearers Quarters

Myrtle Mountain Shack at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard shack and a smaller timber outbuilding sit low in thick green.

Myrtle Mountain Shack

Collapsed Home at A Place to Call Home, a home on a farm beneath a large conifer with a collapsed roof has been succumbing.

Valley Shearers Quarters at A Place to Call Home, a corrugated iron roof sits low over rendered walls and weathered timber.

Valley Shearers Quarters

Delegate Shearers Quarters at A Place to Call Home, the end of a weatherboard clad shearers quarters on the outskirts.

Delegate Shearers Quarters

Home In The Valley at A Place to Call Home, a weatherboard farmhouse sits alone in open grazing country.

Home In The Valley

Hunter Hilltop at A Place to Call Home, a low timber shed sits in open green pasture beneath an overcast sky.

04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Made to order by Brett in Sydney, from the original RAW file. Each print is hand-signed and numbered before it ships.

Paper

Ilford Galerie cotton rag, 310 gsm. Acrylic on metallic gloss, 260 gsm.

Editions

Open in XS and S. Limited in M (100), L (50), XL (25). From $100.

Print tiers →

Lead time

Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.

06 PRESS

In the press

People talk about what it was like to work or stay in these places, who they knew, what they did, how great the Christmas parties were, that store man nobody liked, what all the different machines were, how they worked and what became of them.

Broadsheet

Brett Patman·2016

lostcollective.com

On the LC archive.

There's this sense of wonder you get when looking at abandoned buildings. You try to imagine what these spaces were like when they were filled with busy workers trying to meet production targets. And why did they close?

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

I'm often contacted by people who used to frequent the places I photographed. They share stories that enter the collections as additions or corrections. Sometimes they send their own photos from the same viewpoints, taken decades earlier.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.