BW Windows

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/13.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight streams through the grimy windows of the abandoned Bradmill Denim factory. Dust motes dance in the light, illuminating the decay within this industrial space.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: BW Windows
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-011
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/13.0
Shutter: 1/8 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Yarraville, Victoria, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Sunlight enters through the grimy windows of one of the buildings at Bradmill, Yarraville. The windows are industrial sashes, the panes still mostly intact, the glass coated in decades of cotton-mill dust and the residue of post-closure occupation. Dust motes drift in the air through the shaft of light falling across the floor of the room. The walls are brick, the floor concrete, the room otherwise empty.

Bradmill Industries Ltd was founded in Sydney in 1927 as Bradford Cotton Mills and expanded into Victoria from 1940. The Yarraville site processed cotton through spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing for denim and workwear fabrics. At peak operation in the 1970s, Bradmill was Australia's largest textile manufacturer. The Yarraville site was pushed into receivership in the early 2000s and shuttered around 2002. The site has since been acquired for redevelopment as Bradmill Yarraville.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Steel beams and steam pipes climb the full height of the boiler house wall. Tall industrial windows line the far side, light falling grey across brickwork and corroded metal. A maintenance platform stands at mid-level, its railing thick with grime. A hand-wheel valve sits locked in position on a large-bore pipe. Heavy chain lies coiled on the floor below. The scale is vertical, dense, mechanical.

Brett Patman

The series

Bradmill Denim

2011 · 27 photographs

The Bradford family founded Bradford Cotton Mills in Sydney in 1927. The company expanded into Victoria in 1940, began producing denim in 1945, and grew into Bradmill Industries Ltd. The Yarraville factory on Francis Street was the country's only indigo denim mill.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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