Crosslight

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Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight slices through a window within an abandoned ward at Callan Park, illuminating dust suspended in the air. The light reveals peeling paint and worn floorboards inside this historic Sydney institution.

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Print datasheet

Title: Crosslight
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-016
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
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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

Sunlight slices through a window in a ward at Callan Park, the light cutting across the room at an angle and falling across the floorboards opposite. Dust hangs in the air through the shaft of light. The walls of the ward are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches. The floor is timber boards, worn at the centre of the room where the working traffic passed.

Callan Park was sited on the Iron Cove foreshore at Lilyfield, with a long north-facing frontage chosen by Colonial Architect James Barnet for its winter sun and summer breezes. The hospital was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, with the Kirkbride Complex built between 1880 and 1884. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008, after the 1976 merger into Rozelle Hospital.

From the field notes

A corridor cuts through the centre of the building, narrow and dim. Doors open on both sides, their frames bare. Mould blooms dark across the plaster walls. Light enters from a room ahead and from doorways to the right, crossing the space at angles. Faded rectangles mark where signs or fixtures were removed. The concrete floor is gritty, stripped back. A small ventilation grille sits low on the left wall. The air looks thick, still.

— 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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What collectors say.

5.00 average

Lee K.

2 June 2022

Absolutely superb
As usual - beautiful photographs, expertly framed. Everyone comments on how awesome the prints look. Thanks so much Brett.