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- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.6s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Provenance
Sunlight streams through a high window into an abandoned ward at Callan Park. Dust settles on the worn floorboards and peeling walls, where shadows lengthen in the silent, empty room.
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Print datasheet
- Title
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- Series
- Callan Park
- Catalogue
- CPA-018
- 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
From the field notes
A ward room inside Callan Park. Metal lockers stand in a row, numbered, each marking a bed bay divided by curtain rails that curve across the ceiling. Olive and checked curtains hang heavy beside the windows. Light enters from the left, catching the worn floor. Small bedside cabinets sit between the bays. The walls are bare plaster, scuffed at hip height. No beds remain.
— Brett Patman
The series
Callan Park
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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