Hopper

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Settings: 36mm · f/9.0 · 5 sec · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Steel handrails and braced pipe supports frame the underside of a concrete hopper at the former Bradmill denim mill. Mineral staining streaks the formwork-cast panels. Debris coats the lower surface. No light source is visible.

Edition

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In situ

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

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

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

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Hopper
Series: Bradmill Denim
Catalogue: BDE-016
Process: Giclée
Captured: 18 March 2012
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Aperture: f/9.0
Shutter: 5 sec s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 36 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

The underside of the concrete hopper, viewed from below, showed the structure that fed material into the boiler plant. Steel handrails and braced pipe supports ran beneath the formwork-cast panels, the concrete stained from years of mineral runoff. The hopper sits at the junction between the coal storage level and the furnace feeding points below, a gravity-fed arrangement built into the structure of the boiler house. Bradmill's plant had been running since the early 1940s; by March 2012 the only light reaching this level came filtered through levels of structure above, and the five-second exposure held the detail of the steel against the surrounding dark.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark roof area of the building.

Brett Patman

The series

Bradmill Denim

2011 · 52 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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