Open Door

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

Through an open door, a desolate room at Callan Park is visible. Peeling paint covers the walls of this former mental asylum, which closed in 2008.

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Print datasheet

Title: Open Door
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-033
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

Through an open door at Callan Park, a room beyond is visible. The door is panelled timber, painted in the institutional palette of the hospital's working years. The room beyond is empty, the walls plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches across the surfaces. The floor visible through the doorway is timber boards.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008, when remaining patients were transferred to Concord Hospital. The hospital had operated continuously since 1 August 1878. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands and is protected by the Callan Park (Special Provisions) Act 2002.

From the field notes

A narrow corridor ends at a heavy white door, closed. Two-tone walls split the space: dark teal above, pale blue below. The paint is intact, institutional, deliberate. Light spills through open doorways on either side, falling across polished linoleum scarred with grit and small debris. A cast-iron radiator sits against the left wall. The ceiling is low. The air feels still and cold.

— 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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