Bathroom

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Chipped tiles and peeling paint define a bathroom within Callan Park's abandoned wards. Grime covers the basin and tapware. This space once served patients of the former psychiatric hospital.

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Print datasheet

Title: Bathroom
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-006
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 bathroom at Callan Park has a single green-painted swing door standing open against white-tiled walls. The door is heavy, designed to be opened with a hip rather than pulled with a hand. Three cubicle partitions of polished terrazzo and pale green board divide the inner space. The cubicles have no doors. Floor tiles are small white hexagons in a grid. A single high window above the cubicles lets in flat daylight from the south. Brass plumbing fixtures, mostly tarnished, are still in place. The cubicle partitions are darker on the side facing the door, where light has fallen on them less.

Hospital bathrooms of the Callan Park era were designed to be supervised. Cubicles without doors meant nursing staff could see what was happening inside without needing to interrupt; swing doors meant the bathroom could be entered without setting down a tray or a basin of water. The terrazzo partitions were durable, easy to clean, and resistant to graffiti or damage. The bathroom in this photograph is an example of that approach in practice. After the hospital closed in 2008, the door swung open and stayed that way. The room is otherwise unchanged from operating-day conditions.

From the field notes

A green swing door stands open against white-tiled walls. Three cubicle partitions of polished terrazzo and pale green board divide the room. A wooden duckboard sits across the threshold, its slats dark with grime. Overhead, fluorescent light fittings hang from a stained plaster ceiling. A small cast-iron radiator rusts against the far wall. Daylight pushes through frosted windows but does not reach the floor.

— 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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