Nurses Office

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/50 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight filters into the abandoned nurses station at Callan Park. Once a vital centre for patient records and medical administration, this room now stands silent within the former psychiatric hospital.

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Print datasheet

Title: Nurses Office
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-031
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

Sunlight enters the nurses station at Callan Park through windows along the outer wall. A desk sits along one wall, the working surface stained and the fittings removed. A chair is pulled up to the desk. Filing cabinets stand against the back wall. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches near the upper edges.

The nurses station served patient records and medical administration across the working life of Callan Park. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

An office used by the nursing staff with bright blue carpet and a view out over the park.

— 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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