Bath Area

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
21mm · f/8.0 · 0.3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside Callan Park, a derelict bath area stands silent. Peeling paint reveals layers of history on the walls. Empty tubs and rusted pipes speak of forgotten routines within the former asylum.

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Print datasheet

Title
Bath Area
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-005
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 bath area at Callan Park. The walls are tiled to dado height in small-format ceramic, the grout darkened with age, the tiles cracked across patches of damp. Empty tubs sit along one wall, the porcelain stained where the water sat in the years after the building was last used. The plumbing fittings are rusted at the taps and drains. The floor is concrete, scuffed at the working positions.

Callan Park was designed for around 600 patients, with the Kirkbride Complex built between 1880 and 1884. By 1930 the hospital held 1,500 patients, more than double the designed capacity. Inquiries into overcrowding in 1923, 1948 and 1955, and the 1961 Royal Commission, all turned on the same problem. The site continued as Rozelle Hospital from 1976 until full closure on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

A white porcelain bathtub sits on a tiled plinth at the centre of the room. The floor is concrete with raised rubber drainage strips running in parallel lines. Stainless steel sheeting covers the lower walls. A cast iron radiator stands against the right side, its paint turned to rust. Frosted and wired glass panels divide the space from an adjacent corridor. A pale green door hangs open. The light is flat, clinical, grey.

— Brett Patman

Callan Park

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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