Boiler Room

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The immense boiler room at Callan Park reveals decaying industrial machinery. Pipes snake across the walls and ceiling. This silent chamber once powered the sprawling psychiatric hospital, now left to the elements.

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Print datasheet

Title: Boiler Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-010
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

The boiler room at Callan Park. Industrial pipework snakes across the walls and ceiling of the room, the lagging stripped from many sections and the bare steel showing the bloom of years of disuse. The boilers themselves sit on concrete pads at the centre of the floor, the casings rusted across the panels. The room is silent. The fittings have been left in place since the working life of the hospital.

The Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park was built between 1880 and 1884 and was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. The boiler room and service plant supported the ten ward blocks of the complex, arranged on a cross axis and linked by a continuous covered veranda. The site continued as Rozelle Hospital from 1976 until full closure on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

Heavy gauge pipework runs overhead and along the walls of a utility room inside Callan Park. Green-painted gate valves and bolted flanged joints connect sections of steel pipe in varying diameters. Rust has taken hold of the lower fittings, turning iron a deep oxide brown. A pressure gauge marked "21" sits on the left. Pale light enters through a single window, catching the cracked plaster walls behind.

— 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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