Sewing Desk
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
- Settings
- 36mm · f/8.0 · 2s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A sewing desk occupies a corner of the abandoned shoe factory. Dust layers the machine and work surface. Faded fabric scraps and tools remain, untouched since production ceased. Light falls through a grimy window.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Sewing Desk
- Series
- Abandoned Shoe Factory
- Catalogue
- ASF-007
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 11 March 2012
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 2s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 36 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Northcote, Victoria, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Northcote, Victoria, Australia
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A couple of sewing machines used for hand stitching shoes.
Brett Patman
The series
Abandoned Shoe Factory
Shoe manufacturing began in two small buildings on Eastment Street, Northcote, before the company purchased corner land at Arthurton Road and Helen Street in 1926 and built a purpose-built factory at 13-15 Arthurton Road. By the 1970s the operation was trading as the Purnell Shoe Company; a pair of brown lace-up shoes in their original Purnell-branded cardboard box from that period sits in the State Library of Victoria's collection as call YLTTEX 198. The factory closed during the contraction of the Australian footwear industry in the 1980s and 1990s, and the site was demolished and consolidated into Lot 102 PS722836, redeveloped as a unit complex from 2016.
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