Meal Service Area

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Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/4 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The abandoned meal service area at Callan Park sits silent. Dust covers the counters where food was once served. Empty trays and forgotten utensils hint at past activity in this decaying space.

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Print datasheet

Title
Meal Service Area
Series
Callan Park
Catalogue
CPA-030
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

The meal service area at Callan Park. Service counters run along the walls of the room, the working surfaces stained and the equipment removed. The floor is concrete, scuffed at the working positions. Empty trays and forgotten utensils lie scattered across the counters. The walls are tiled to dado height, the tiles cracked across patches.

Callan Park's meal service supported up to 1,500 patients at the 1930 peak, more than double the hospital's designed capacity of around 600. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976 and closed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

Stainless steel benchtops line both walls of the kitchen, running deep toward a curved bank of windows. A commercial oven sits centred at the far end. Tiled splashbacks catch dull light. The floor is small-format ceramic, grimy but intact. Overhead, a ceiling fan hangs motionless. A fire alarm panel is mounted on the right wall. Every surface carries a film of grey dust.

— Brett Patman

Callan Park

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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