Lockers

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 25s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A row of full-height steel lockers lines the floor of White Bay Power Station. Doors hang open. Green and rust-brown paint, heavily oxidised. Concrete columns recede toward a bright open doorway beyond.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Lockers
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-052
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 25s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A row of timber lockers at White Bay Power Station sits along one wall of one of the change rooms, the lockers individually numbered and fitted with a small turn-key lock. The timber is hardwood, varnished darker than the floor, with the numbers stencilled on each door in a small panel near the handle. Some of the locker doors are open, others closed. Inside the open ones, the residue of working items remains: a few hangers, a discarded work shirt, a metal cup, a brown paper bag. The flooring around the lockers is composite tile, polished by foot traffic. The lighting is fluorescent overhead.

White Bay's workforce of around 500 to 600 at peak required substantial change-room infrastructure: lockers for street clothes, hooks for working coats, basins for hand-washing, showers for the dirtier-job crews. The lockers in this photograph held the personal effects of one section of the workforce across the working life of the plant from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the lockers were emptied of most personal items but the residue of working belongings remained in the unclaimed ones. The change rooms have stayed essentially as they were on the last working day.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel lockers line a concrete wall, doors hanging open. Green and brown paint flakes from the metal in wide patches, exposing rust beneath. Louvred vents run down each door. The compartments are empty. Grit and debris cover the floor. Overhead, pipes and severed cables cross exposed ceiling beams. Light enters from a far opening, catching the dust in the air and throwing the row of lockers into sharp relief against grey concrete columns and brickwork.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

2015–2018 · 124 photographs

Bricklayers laid 3.7 million bricks at White Bay across three and a quarter years of Phase 1 construction, on Wanngal Country at the western edge of Rozelle. The New South Wales Government Railways ran the build through its own Construction Department. By 3 July 1913, boilers and alternators were running before the buildings that housed them were complete.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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