Basement Exit
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The basement exit of an abandoned bakery is choked with rubble and decaying materials. Light filters through the grime, illuminating peeling paint and forgotten machinery, hinting at its past life.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Basement Exit
- Series
- Abandoned Bakery (ABBCO Bakery)
- Catalogue
- ABA-002
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 8 November 2015
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 0.8s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia
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Concrete steps rise from a debris-covered basement floor toward a narrow doorway. A steel handrail, still bolted in place, curves along the staircase. Every surface carries graffiti. Layers of aerosol colour cover the cinder block walls from floor to ceiling. A large painted cat figure dominates the left wall. Spray cans litter the ground beside crumpled paper and broken ceiling panels. Pale light enters through high windows, thick with paint and grime.
Brett Patman
The series
Abandoned Bakery (ABBCO Bakery)
ABBCO Bakery ran at 7 Darley Road, Leichhardt, on the inner-west fringe of Sydney. The site was on the original 1811 Macquarie Gift land grant to Ensign Hugh Piper, adjacent to the former Goods Line freight rail corridor between Sydney Yard and Darling Harbour. Built around 1950, the bakery was, by the early 1970s, the largest independent bakery in Australia. Director and part-owner Bill McLeod ran it with his brother and sister, baking 100 types of bread for distribution across Sydney through ABBCO's own 22 retail shops and through wholesale outlets. The site later passed through State Rail and Goodman Fielder ownership and had brief lives as a limousine hire and furniture manufacturer before falling out of use. The Lost Collective photographs were made during its abandoned period. The bakery has since been demolished. A Dan Murphy's now stands on the site.
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