Chaplain's Office

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Chaplain's Office at Callan Park stands in quiet decay. Sunlight reveals peeling walls and a worn floor, remnants of its former life within the historic psychiatric hospital grounds. Dust covers every surface.

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Print datasheet

Title: Chaplain's Office
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-013
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 Chaplain's Office at Callan Park. A desk sits along one wall of the room, the working surface stained. A chair is pulled up to the desk. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling across patches of damp. Sunlight enters through a window on the outer wall and falls across the desk and the floor. Dust covers every fixed object in the room.

The chaplain's office served the spiritual functions of the hospital across the working life of Callan Park. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, designed by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning. The site continued as Rozelle Hospital from 1976 until full closure on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

There was an active bee swarm in the curtain to the right. You can see some of the dead bees on the floor beneath the curtain.

— 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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