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01 Mittagong MaltingsMittagong2014
ISO 1001.6sf/8.072mm
Series · 11 prints
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Mittagong Maltings was a three-malthouse complex in the Southern Highlands, built between 1899 and 1916 to supply malt to New South Wales breweries. The Malting Company of New South Wales put up the first malthouse in 1899 between the railway line and Nattai Creek. Tooth and Co bought the operation in 1905 and built two more malthouses, in 1906 and 1916, taking the complex to the imposing scale that still defines the Mittagong skyline. At peak the maltings processed 140,000 bushels of barley a year. Fires damaged Malthouses 1 and 2 in 1942 and gutted Malthouse 3 in 1969, but production continued until 1980. Tooth and Co put the holdings up for sale in 1981. The buildings stood empty for almost forty years until Halcyons Hotels bought the site for $6.05 million in 2019, planning to retain the exteriors and convert the interiors to mixed use.
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.
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.
Lead time
Unframed: 5 to 10 business days. Framed and acrylic: 10 to 20.
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
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
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
On the LC archive.
