Main Storage Room

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Light filters into the main storage room at Callan Park, illuminating dusty shelves. This space once held supplies for the former psychiatric hospital, now left in decades of disuse.

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Print datasheet

Title: Main Storage Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-029
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

Light filters into the main storage room at Callan Park. The shelves along the walls of the room are dust-covered, the inventory cleared at some point during the closure of the hospital. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches across the upper sections. The floor is concrete, scuffed at the working positions. 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 from its proclamation on 1 August 1878. The site, on the Iron Cove foreshore at Lilyfield, is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

From the field notes

Timber shelving lines the wall in a tight grid, every cubbyhole emptied. Strips of adhesive tape cling to the shelf edges where labels used to be. The concrete floor is bare, scuffed, scattered with plaster debris. Teal curtains hang heavy beside a frosted window. Flat grey light fills the room. A single ventilation grille sits dead centre above the glass. The air looks thick and 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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