Fisheye Boiler House

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED
Settings: 15mm · f/16.0 · 1/3 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A fisheye view of the boiler house at Bradmill, Yarraville. Rusting machinery and exposed pipes fill the curved frame. The plant was pushed into receivership in the early 2000s.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Fisheye Boiler House
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-015
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture: f/16.0
Shutter: 1/3 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 15 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

A fisheye view of the boiler house at Bradmill, Yarraville. The curved frame takes in the full volume of the room: boilers, conveyors, pipework, control panels. Rusting machinery and exposed pipes cross the frame at every angle. The walls are brick, the floor concrete, the ceiling structural steel. The geometry of the room compresses into the curved field of the lens.

The boiler house at Bradmill Yarraville drove the steam supply for the cotton processing across the site. Bradmill Industries Ltd was Australia's largest textile manufacturer at its 1970s peak, with fifteen sites across NSW, Victoria and Queensland and approximately 7,000 employees. The Yarraville plant was pushed into receivership in the early 2000s under cheap-import pressure and shuttered around 2002. The site is currently being redeveloped as Bradmill Yarraville.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A fisheye shot of the entire boiler house.

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

Print sizes

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