Office

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A derelict office at Callan Park shows a dusty desk and a single chair. Light enters through a grimy window, illuminating peeling paint and forgotten papers. The room stands silent, a relic of its past.

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Print datasheet

Title: Office
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-032
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

A derelict office at Callan Park. A dusty desk sits along one wall of the room, a single chair pulled up to the desk. Light enters through a grimy window above the desk and falls across the working surface. Forgotten papers lie scattered across the desk and floor. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling across patches of damp.

Callan Park was proclaimed as a separate institution from Gladesville on 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederick Norton Manning. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

A timber bench wraps the corner of a narrow room. Drawers hang open, their chrome handles dulled. The benchtop is scarred with rectangular outlines where equipment sat for years. Cream tiles line the splashback above a porcelain basin, its exposed pipework green at the joints. Grit covers the linoleum floor. Flat light enters through sash windows, catching dust on every surface.

— 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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