Broken Up
Broken Up

Broken Up

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Splintered wood and debris scatter across the floor inside Callan Park. This scene captures the slow disintegration of a forgotten space within the historic psychiatric hospital.

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Print datasheet

Title
Broken Up
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-011
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

Splintered wood and debris are scattered across the floor of one of the rooms at Callan Park. The timber is from the joinery of the room, removed from the windows and the doors at some point during the disused years. The walls of the room are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches. The floor is timber boards under the debris, scuffed and stained.

Callan Park Hospital for the Insane was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederick Norton Manning, based on the Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

You can see patches on the floor where it is starting to rot away.

— 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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  1. Lee K.

    11 November 2021

    Simply excellent

    Excellent service. Beautiful photographs which were of a very high quality. Thoroughly recommend.

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