Filing Cabinets
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/8.0 · 13s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Metal filing cabinets stand in a derelict room at Macquarie Boys Technology High. Their grey surfaces gather dust, holding forgotten records of the school's past. The scene captures the silence of abandonment in 2015.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Filing Cabinets
- Series
- Macquarie Boys Technology High
- Catalogue
- MBT-012
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 24 October 2015
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 13s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia
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Steel filing cabinets stand against the right wall, drawers pulled open, emptied. One is tagged in silver paint. A toppled credenza lies face-down on the vinyl floor nearby, surrounded by scattered papers and broken tile. Concrete columns divide the space. Grey light enters from somewhere deeper in the building, falling across graffiti-covered walls and water stains that streak down from the ceiling. The air looks damp. Dust coats everything.
Brett Patman
The series
Macquarie Boys Technology High
Macquarie Boys Technology High School began in 1944 as Parramatta Boys Junior High School, was renamed Macquarie Boys High in 1956, and added the Technology suffix in the early 1990s to emphasise a technology-focused curriculum. The campus moved to its final site on the corner of Kissing Point Road and James Ruse Drive at the end of 1957. Enrolment peaked at 850 in the 1990s before reputation problems and falling student numbers prompted the Department of Education to wind the school down. Years 7 to 10 were discontinued at the start of 2008 and the last Year 12 cohort finished at the end of 2009. The site has stood empty since. A 2016 arson attack severely damaged the school hall. As of late 2024 the site was the subject of a Property and Development NSW market sounding for redevelopment.
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