Fallen Down

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Curtain tracks hang from the ceiling of a ward room at Callan Park Hospital. Blue curtains remain. Drawers sit open on the floor. The door is boarded with plywood. Debris scattered across concrete.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Fallen Down
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-021
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2s 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

Curtain tracks hang from the ceiling of a ward room at Callan Park Hospital. Blue curtains remain in place along sections of the track. Drawers sit open on the floor, the contents long removed. The door is boarded with plywood across the frame. Debris is scattered across the concrete floor. The room is otherwise empty.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008, when remaining patients were transferred to Concord Hospital. The hospital had operated continuously since 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederick Norton Manning.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A ward room inside Callan Park. Blue privacy curtains hang from ceiling-mounted rails, some still drawn, others bunched and sagging. A wooden wardrobe stands open between two windows. Bedside cabinets with their drawers pulled out. Linen and grey sheeting lie crumpled on the vinyl floor. Light enters low through a half-blocked window and catches the scuffed surface. The exit door is boarded with plywood. The air looks still and cold.

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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