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Extension at Braidwood Hotel, an unfinished renovation in an earlier part of the Braidwood Hotel construction.

01 Graffiti & Urban DecayBraidwood2011 - 2016

ISO 1001/4f/8.014mm

Theme · 54 prints

Graffiti & Urban Decay

Photographed 2011 - 2016

Frames 54

Camera NIKON D7000 · NIKON D810

Location New South Wales, Australia · Victoria, Australia · Saitama, Japan

01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

Buildings don't stay empty. Once the owners leave, somebody else arrives. Walls that were blank become a record of who came through and when. Graffiti isn't vandalism on these surfaces , it's the only remaining evidence that anyone cared enough to be here.Urban spaces mid-collapse. The gap between what a building was built for and what it became.

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.

Extension at Braidwood Hotel, an unfinished renovation in an earlier part of the Braidwood Hotel construction.

Walkway at Hornsby Quarry, a rusted steel planter sits at ground level beside a narrow walkway.

Washroom at Eveleigh Paint Shop, inside OFS2259, a 1949 air-conditioned daylight express second/economy class car.

Interurban Motor Car CF5015 at Eveleigh Paint Shop, stainless steel panelling runs the full length of the carriage, dulled with grime and covered in aerosol.

Interurban Motor Car CF5015

Power Van at Eveleigh Paint Shop, stainless steel roof ribs run the length of a PHA-class power van, its corrugated surface thick with grey dust.

Power Car at Eveleigh Paint Shop, the driver’s cab of a single-deck interurban power car, built for the demanding routes to Katoomba and Gosford.

PHA Class at Eveleigh Paint Shop, a view down the length of a Power Van, part of the PHA class, built for the standard gauge joint stock service between Sydney and Melbourne.

Mezzanine at Eveleigh Paint Shop, the amenities mezzanine stands as a reminder of the workforce that once filled this space.

Eveleigh Paint Shop Forecourt at Eveleigh Paint Shop, decommissioned CityRail carriages sit on parallel tracks beneath the Eveleigh Paint Shop's sawtooth roof.

Eveleigh Paint Shop Forecourt

What You Got Is This Whole Miserable Subculture at Bradmill Denim, someone took the time to paint this across the full.

What You Got Is This Whole Miserable Subculture

Blood Wars Buddy at Bradmill Denim, deep red block letters stretch across a concrete tilt-panel wall.

Blood Wars Buddy

Scrubbers at Bathurst Gasworks, steel vessels and heavy flanged pipework crowd the interior of the gasworks scrubber house.

Pokies at Balmain Leagues Club, overturned poker machine cabinets sit in a heap on the wet floor.

Front Parking Area at Balmain Leagues Club, concrete columns rise from a bare floor to a low slab ceiling.

Front Parking Area

Fire Exit at Balmain Leagues Club, a low concrete ceiling presses down over a corridor deep inside the building.

Carpark Level One at Balmain Leagues Club, a low concrete ceiling presses down across the open floor plate.

Carpark Level One

Betting Station at Balmain Leagues Club, a TAB Sportsbet terminal stands against the wall, its blue plastic surround still.

Betting Station

Office at ATL Building, a suspended ceiling sags where panels have collapsed, letting sharp beams of daylight cut.

Squatters Bedroom at Abandoned Bakery, a stained mattress sits flat on the concrete floor, pushed against the back wall.

Squatters Bedroom

Main Floor West at Abandoned Bakery, steel portal frames span the full width of the warehouse floor.

Main Floor West

Surgery at Nichitsu Mining Village, a decaying doctors surgery.

Reflections at Geelong B Power Station, standing water covers the corridor floor, black and still enough to mirror.

Loading Dock at O-I Glass, a collapsed awning sags at a steep angle across the loading dock, its sheeting buckled and grey.

Air Compressor at Hornsby Quarry, used to provide pressurised air for operation of equipment within the plant.

Screening Conveyor at Hornsby Quarry, where material from the quarry would be screened into different sizes.

Screening Conveyor

Level Two at Hornsby Quarry, possibly the level where the screening took place.

Conveyor Eight at Hornsby Quarry, a cross-sectional view of a conveyor.

Control Room Entrance at Hornsby Quarry, a small platform before the entrance to the control room of the plant.

Control Room Entrance

Control Desk at Hornsby Quarry, the main control panel within the processing plant.

Screening at Hornsby Quarry, the next step after one of the conveyors that brought raw material from the quarry.

Ground Level at Hornsby Quarry, stairs down to the ground level of the processing plant.

Grease Gun at Sundell Holden, an old grease gun reel left in a waste oil area.

Roller Door at Sundell Holden, a side entrance to the panel shop which has been turned into a canvas for graffiti artists.

Main Entrance at Sundell Holden, an office on the left where the representative would have greeted the customer.

Attic Entrance at Sundell Holden, the colourful staircase leading to a small attic storage area.

Filing Cabinet at Sundell Holden, moved to the middle of the paint shop as a bench from graffiti artists to work from.

Fisheye Boiler House at Bradmill Denim, a fisheye shot of the entire boiler house.

Fisheye Boiler House

Paint at Bradmill Denim, montana Black 400ml cans lined up on a concrete ledge, labels spattered and worn.

Feeder Bin at Box Hill Brickworks, the bottom of the bin that was used to store and feed the clay or brick-making material.

Lit Stairs at Box Hill Brickworks, a stairway leading up to the upper levels of the brickworks.

Gantry at Box Hill Brickworks, this area of the building was where the water tank was kept which probably fed to the brick.

Brick Press at Box Hill Brickworks, one of the remaining brick presses which used to be used while the site was still.

Stripped Cables at Balmain Leagues Club, here's an example of the work of other types of people who come to abandoned places.

Stripped Cables

Hose Reel at Balmain Leagues Club, sometimes (always) the light on its own can make something uninteresting look good.

Basement Ramp at Balmain Leagues Club, the Ramp leading to the basement carpark.

Office Mezzanine at Abandoned Bakery, part of the mezzanine that adjoins a small office.

Office Mezzanine

Main Floor To Mezzanine at Abandoned Bakery, a staircase leading from the main floor of the building to the mezzanine.

Main Floor To Mezzanine

Reflections at Abandoned Bakery, graffiti reflects in the rainwater pooled on the floor.

Hallway at Abandoned Bakery, now, most are full of mattresses.

Main Floor East at Abandoned Bakery, the main floor of the building facing out towards the loading dock.

Main Floor East

Basement to First Floor at Abandoned Bakery, the only way is up.

Basement to First Floor

Basement Exit at Abandoned Bakery, concrete steps rise from a debris-covered basement floor toward a narrow doorway.

Basement Pylons at Abandoned Bakery, a cross view of the basement.

Basement Pylons

Hangout at Abandoned Bakery, netflix & Chill.

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

Holding a solo exhibition in one of the spaces I've photographed would also be a dream, particularly at a site with a strong community connection - so the images can be enjoyed by the people who made it matter.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.

I'm not trying to make out like I'm some kind of mysterious urbex badass. Lost Collective isn't about me. It's about the places I shoot and even more about the connection that the people have to the sites.

Broadsheet

Brett Patman·2016

lostcollective.com

On the LC archive.

Often I'd find myself looking at the machines and architecture and challenging myself to find one single object designed purely for aesthetics. Craftsmanship made way for efficiency in engineering long before I'd even left school.

The Guardian

Brett Patman·2019

theguardian.com

On the LC archive.