Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.
Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.

Sheep By The Porch

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
80.0-400.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
Settings
92mm · f/11.0 · 1/500 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A solitary sheep stands by the crumbling porch of an abandoned rural home. Faded paint peels from the timber, and a sense of quiet decay settles over the forgotten structure, slowly yielding to the elements.

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Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.Sheep By The Porch at A Place to Call Home, the stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Sheep By The Porch
Series
A Place to Call Home
Catalogue
PCH-011
Process
Giclée
Captured
26 December 2016
Camera
NIKON D810
Lens
80.0-400.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
Aperture
f/11.0
Shutter
1/500 s
ISO
100
Focal length
92 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Rural New South Wales and ACT, Australia
Authenticity
C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
03 THE STORY

About this print

A small flock of sheep stands beside the porch of a derelict rural home in the Snowy Monaro region. The home is single-storey, timber-clad, with the front porch sagging on one side. The sheep, ten or so of them, have come up close to the building, browsing the grass that has grown right up against the foundations. Their wool is in mid-season condition, neither freshly shorn nor heavy. The lighting is afternoon. The sheep do not seem concerned by the photographer. They have probably seen people enough times to know there is nothing to be afraid of and probably nothing to gain. A working dog is not in the frame, but the sheep are still.

Many of the derelict homesteads across this country sit on properties that are still actively grazed. The houses no longer house people, but the paddocks around them still run stock. Sheep wander up to the abandoned buildings because the buildings cast useful shade and the long grass against the walls is more tender than the grazed-down grass in the open. The flock in this photograph is part of a working operation. The home behind them is part of the same property. The land continues to do its job; the building has stopped doing its job. The two coexist in the frame.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The stormy distant skies contrast the dry, hot land on which this shot was taken, of an old timber farmhouse.

Brett Patman

A Place to Call Home

The series

A Place to Call Home

2015–2020 · 59 photographs

A series of rural homesteads from the Snowy Monaro region of southern New South Wales, with a few from the Hunter Valley. Most were family homes left behind when a generation moved to town; others when the land could no longer be worked. The buildings are smaller than the industrial sites that anchor most of Lost Collective and tend to be older. Most are timber-framed.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM A PLACE TO CALL HOME

58 other prints in this series

All prints
Stone Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, a stone cottage sits low against open grassland, its rough-cut walls catching.
Stone Drover's Hut $100.00
House On The Hill at A Place to Call Home, a single concrete structure sits on an exposed ridge above the Snowy Mountains.
House On The Hill $100.00
Gunningrah Drover's Hut at A Place to Call Home, corrugated iron walls, faded to pale blue-grey, hold together.
Gunningrah Drover's Hut $100.00
Timber Weatherboards at A Place to Call Home, an early 20th century home just outside of Cathcart.
Timber Weatherboards $100.00
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