Doorway

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Settings: 57mm · f/16.0 · 6 sec · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Light cuts through an open doorway on the left, throwing a hard vertical streak across the debris-covered concrete floor of a corridor at Bradmill, Yarraville. A fire door stands on the right with its warning text intact, the number 2 still legible on the green-tiled wall beside it. Red brick on one side and glazed tile on the other, the passage holds the contrast of materials even as the floor accumulates years of grime.

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In situ

Doorway at Bradmill Denim, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Doorway at Bradmill Denim, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Doorway at Bradmill Denim, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Doorway
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-013
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture: f/16.0
Shutter: 6 sec s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 57 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 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

The fire door at the end of the narrow brick corridor sits at the junction between two production zones, the kind of internal circulation that connected distinct areas across a large factory complex. These service passages were built to contain fire. Bradmill's Yarraville site developed from 1940 and by the 1970s operated across multiple buildings on the block. The fire compartmentation in the brick corridors outlasted the production itself; by 2012 the corridor held only fallen debris and the light spilling through a side door onto the concrete floor.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A heavy steel fire door marked "2" fills the end of a narrow brick corridor. The sign reads: FIRE DOOR MUST BE KEPT CLEAR AT ALL TIMES. Light spills through an open doorway on the left, catching debris scattered across the concrete floor. Paint flakes from the besser block walls. The air looks thick, damp. Graffiti marks the brickwork near the entrance.

Brett Patman

The series

Bradmill Denim

52 photographs

The former Davies Coop / Bradmill factory, Yarraville, was a textile works on Francis Street in Melbourne's western suburbs, built as the dyeing and finishing plant of the cotton spinner Davies Coop & Co. Ltd. It followed a 1952 agreement with the Bradford Dyers' Association of England and was in production by the middle of 1955. Bradmill Industries bid for Davies Coop in 1969 and owned it outright by 1973. The steel-framed, red brick boiler house is the building the heritage listing names as a large and dominant local landmark.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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