Balcony

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 18mm · f/8.0 · 1/200 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A decaying balcony overlooks the grounds of Callan Park, a former psychiatric hospital in Sydney. Paint peels from the balustrade, revealing layers of history beneath the surface.

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Print datasheet

Title: Balcony
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-003
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified →
Recognised by: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia

Where this was photographed

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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About this print

A covered balcony at Callan Park overlooks one of the hospital's gardens, designed in the 1880s by Charles Moore. The balcony is tiled, with a low timber rail and a row of cast-iron columns supporting the roof above. From the rail, the formal garden is visible: paths, lawns, mature plantings, and the canopy of older trees. A few timber chairs remain on the balcony, arranged loosely. The light is afternoon, warm enough that the tiles hold heat into the evening. The view from the balcony is one of the building's intentional features.

Callan Park's grounds were laid out by Charles Moore, the colonial botanist who designed Sydney's Botanic Gardens. The design philosophy was therapeutic: patients were given views of cultivated landscape on the principle that visual access to gardens, trees, and open sky was a treatment in itself. The balcony in this photograph was one of dozens of similar viewing spaces around the wards. Patients sat here for hours of the day, in good weather, looking out over the grounds. Callan Park closed as a working psychiatric hospital in 2008. The gardens have been kept up as public parkland; the balconies have not been kept up at all.

From the field notes

Another indoor balcony where patients could sit and have a cup of tea while looking into the beautiful garden outside.

— Brett Patman

The series

Callan Park

2016–2018 · 66 photographs

Callan Park opened in 1885 as the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, on land at Rozelle in Sydney's Inner West. The Kirkbride Complex was designed by colonial architect James Barnet and superintendent Frederick Norton Manning, intended as a working example of the more progressive psychiatric care principles of the period. The hospital was reorganised through the twentieth century and many of the wards remain. Brett photographed across multiple visits between 2016 and 2018.

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