Amenities Ground Level at ATL Building, stairs leading up to the staff amenities area.

01 ATL BuildingMeadowbank2015

ISO 1006sf/8.024mm

Series · 14 prints

ATL Building

Photographed 2015
Frames 14
Camera NIKON D7000
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Demolished c. 2016
Architect Julius, Poole & Gibson
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

The ATL Building was the Meadowbank factory of Automatic Totalisers Limited, the company that built the mechanical and electromechanical totaliser machines for racecourse betting, ticket printing, and department-store sales recording. Designed in 1947 by Julius Poole and Gibson for Sir George Julius -- the engineer who patented the automatic totaliser -- it ran as two Art Deco buildings on the same site, one for the factory, warehouse, and offices, the other for the dressing rooms, showers, and canteen. The toolroom was said to be the largest and best equipped in the southern hemisphere. A second toolroom was added in 1975. As totaliser technology gave way to computers, the factory ceased production and the buildings were repurposed as a gym, church, office space, and dance school before being demolished in 2016 for apartment redevelopment.

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.

Amenities Ground Level at ATL Building, stairs leading up to the staff amenities area.
Amenities Ground Level
Showers at ATL Building, sometimes the light just does all the work for you.
Showers
Downstairs Office at ATL Building, deep blue walls dominate the room.
Downstairs Office
PE Department at ATL Building, the PE department.
PE Department
Toolroom Length at ATL Building, viewing down what used to be most of the length of the toolroom.
Toolroom Length
Office Hallway at ATL Building, a corridor which ran the length of the upper office block.
Office Hallway
Showers Entrance at ATL Building, this area served the same purpose from the time it was a totaliser factory up until it's.
Showers Entrance
Rear Tool Room at ATL Building, this area was the tool rooms expansion which was built while the factory was still.
Rear Tool Room
End of Office Block at ATL Building, the end of the length of the ground floor office block.
End of Office Block
Server Room at ATL Building, part of the office area which had been converted into a server room.
Server Room
Dressing Room at ATL Building, part of the amenities block for the factory workers before being converted into a gym.
Dressing Room
Canteen at ATL Building, a heap of crumpled fabric or paper sits in the centre of a bare concrete floor.
Canteen
Switching Room at ATL Building, a green steel door stands open between two electrical switchboard cabinets.
Switching Room
Office at ATL Building, a suspended ceiling sags where panels have collapsed, letting sharp beams of daylight cut.
Office
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.

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Lead time

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

06 PRESS

In the press

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.

One day I stopped at a vast abandoned factory I passed on my way home from work. There was a long section of fence missing. I wandered in, camera in hand, and that moment was the unofficial beginning of Lost Collective.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

Leaving a secure job to work as an artist, trying to manage inconsistent income and tempering the self-doubt and self-criticism that came with it has been one of the most difficult things I've done.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

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