Hopper at Bradmill Denim, the bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark.
Hopper at Bradmill Denim, the bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark.

Hopper

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Settings
36mm · f/9.0 · 5s · 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.

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Hopper at Bradmill Denim, the bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark.Hopper at Bradmill Denim, the bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark.Hopper at Bradmill Denim, the bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark.Hopper at Bradmill Denim, the bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark.Hopper at Bradmill Denim, the bright daylight on the levels below worked well to create the dramatic effect in the dark.
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
5s 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

Steel handrails and braced pipe supports frame the underside of a concrete hopper at Bradmill, Yarraville. The hopper is a formwork-cast concrete cone narrowing to a discharge point below, mineral staining streaked across the cast panels. Debris coats the lower surface. No light source is visible; the space below the hopper is dark, the structural form visible through the residual ambient.

Bradmill at Yarraville processed 40,000 bales of cotton a year at peak operation. Hoppers like this one held intermediate product between stages of the cotton processing line. Bradmill Industries Ltd was Australia's largest textile manufacturer in the 1970s, with denim production at Yarraville running from 1945 and the country's first indigo-dyed denim produced there in 1962. The plant was pushed into receivership in the early 2000s and shuttered around 2002.

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

Bradmill Denim

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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07 MORE FROM BRADMILL DENIM

26 other prints in this series

All prints
Conveyor at Bradmill Denim, an old coal conveyor used to feed to the boiler furnace.
Conveyor $100.00
Roto Feeder at Bradmill Denim, a Babcock Detroit Roto-Feeder sits square in the frame, its cast iron face blackened.
Roto Feeder $100.00
Tank at Bradmill Denim, lagged hot water tank from the top of the boiler house.
Tank $100.00
Doorway at Bradmill Denim, a heavy steel fire door marked "2" fills the end of a narrow brick corridor.
Doorway $100.00
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