Yard Facing Southeast

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
36mm · f/8.0 · 1/80 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A wide concrete yard at Blayney Abattoir stretches back toward brick buildings and metal staircases, weeds pushing through a strip down its centre. Graffiti reading BRO'S 4 life marks a white panel on the building at right. A yellow fire hydrant stands beside a blue plastic drum in the foreground, a red hose coiled further along. Three stairwells at the far end once connected different processing floors.

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In situ

Yard Facing Southeast at Blayney Abattoir, unframed print displayed in situ on a wall.Yard Facing Southeast at Blayney Abattoir, white-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Yard Facing Southeast at Blayney Abattoir, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Yard Facing Southeast at Blayney Abattoir, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.Yard Facing Southeast at Blayney Abattoir, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Yard Facing Southeast
Series
Blayney Abattoir
Catalogue
BAB-025
Process
Giclée
Captured
1 January 2016
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/80 s
ISO
100
Focal length
36 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
297 × 210 mm
Location
Blayney, New South Wales, Australia
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

On the left, the old store and by-products building once kept the site stocked, while behind the camera stood the smoke shed, where workers took short breaks between demanding shifts. Every surface and structure in this yard played a part in the plant’s tightly coordinated daily rhythm.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

This wide concrete yard once pulsed with daily movement, now overtaken by silence and scattered debris.

Brett Patman

Blayney Abattoir

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

Print sizes

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