Office

Provenance

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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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Office
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-032
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 October 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1.3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 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

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.

04 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 · 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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