Dark Hallway

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/3 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A narrow access corridor near the beef kill floor at Blayney Abattoir, Central West NSW. Overhead pipes and hanging supports break the ceiling line. Light filters through patterned glass at the far end. The abattoir operated from 1957, processing beef, sheep and pigs, until ANZCO closed it in 1998.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Dark Hallway
Series: Blayney Abattoir
Catalogue: BAB-006
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 January 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/3 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Blayney, 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

Blayney, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A narrow access corridor near the beef kill floor at Blayney Abattoir. Overhead pipes and hanging supports break the line of the ceiling. The walls along the corridor are plain plaster, painted in an institutional palette. Light filters through patterned glass at the far end of the run. The corridor is otherwise unlit; the working lighting overhead has been off since closure.

Blayney Abattoir processed beef, sheep and pigs from 1957 until ANZCO Foods closed the plant in 1998. The beef floor ran at 250 to 400 cattle a day at peak operation. Access corridors of this kind moved workers between the kill floors, the cold stores and the rendering plant across the multi-floor working layout. The site has stood disused since closure in 1998 to 1999.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow concrete corridor runs deep into shadow. Steel bracing cuts diagonally across the ceiling, bolted to the slab above. The walls are bare render, stained and peeling. A metal frame leans against the left side, abandoned where it was dropped. Grit covers the floor. At the far end, a door with patterned glass lets in the only light, blowing out white against the surrounding dark.

Brett Patman

The series

Blayney Abattoir

2016 · 25 photographs

At peak the Blayney Abattoir employed about 1,600 people, one of the largest workforces in Central West New South Wales. The site had been a butter factory and freezing works from at least 1900, converted to an abattoir in 1957. ANZCO Foods, the New Zealand owner since 1996, announced closure in March 1998 with about 600 workers given a week's pay.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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