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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

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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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Empty
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-018
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.6s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Sunlight enters through a high window into an empty ward at Callan Park. The light falls across the worn floorboards and the peeling walls of the room. Dust has settled across every surface. The room is otherwise empty, the fittings removed and the working traffic of the hospital long ended. Shadows lengthen across the floor through the afternoon.

Callan Park Hospital for the Insane was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and operated as a working hospital for 130 years until full closure on 30 April 2008. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning, modelled on the Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

04 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

2016–2018 · 93 photographs

Dr Frederic Norton Manning rejected the asylum as 'a cemetery for deceased intellects'. In 1876 he toured asylums in England, France, Germany and the United States, returning with drawings of Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. Working with Colonial Architect James Barnet and Botanic Gardens director Charles Moore, he built Australia's first hospital purpose-built for moral therapy treatment on the Iron Cove foreshore.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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