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01 Queen Victoria SanitoriumMount Victoria2015
ISO 1001.6sf/8.024mm
Series · 14 prints
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Queen Victoria Sanitorium opened on 18 February 1903 at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains as a tuberculosis sanatorium for men. The original house was built for Sydney businessman Kelso King, who sold the property to the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Homes for Consumptives Fund after the death of his wife Irene in 1900. The full complex was designed and built between 1902 and 1921. The sanatorium ran for 55 years before becoming a hospital for the aged and chronically ill in 1958 and finally a nursing home, which closed in May 1999. The site is on the local heritage register (item Wf025) but is not on the NSW State Heritage Register. Most of the complex is now in ruin.
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.
