Downstairs Exit

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rusting bars secure a downstairs exit within the derelict Blayney Abattoir. Concrete walls show signs of decay as dim light penetrates the forgotten industrial complex, revealing a passage into darkness.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Downstairs Exit
Series: Blayney Abattoir
Catalogue: BAB-008
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 January 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 5s 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

Rusting bars secure a downstairs exit at Blayney Abattoir. The bars are welded steel, fixed to a concrete frame. The walls of the corridor leading to the exit are bare concrete, scuffed at the working height where the passage was most used. Dim light enters through the gaps in the bars from the yard beyond. The exit served one of the lower working floors of the plant.

Blayney Abattoir operated for 41 years, from 1957 to 1998. The plant's multi-floor layout was typical of mid-century Australian abattoir construction, with cold stores, holding pens, slaughter floors, offal rooms, boning rooms and packing rooms stacked vertically through the building. The site has stood disused since ANZCO Foods closed the plant in 1998, with full shutdown completed across 1999.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A concrete corridor narrows toward a mesh gate at the far end, where grey light spills inward. Steel basin on the left wall, taps still attached. Overhead, a tight grid of pipes and rails runs the full length of the ceiling. The walls are dark with grime, brick courses visible where render has pulled away. Floor caked in years of accumulated dirt. Debris scattered near the gate. The air in here would be cold and still.

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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