Parkview

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1/10 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sandstone walls of Callan Park stand amidst overgrown foliage. The scene captures the quiet decay of the historic grounds. Sunlight illuminates the weathered textures, revealing the enduring legacy of the former hospital.

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Print datasheet

Title: Parkview
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-034
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

Sandstone walls of Callan Park stand among the overgrown grounds of the site. The stonework is weathered, the joints worn back across the patches most exposed to the weather. Sunlight falls across the walls and reveals the layered textures of the stone. The grounds around the buildings are part-claimed by overgrowth from the surrounding landscape.

Callan Park sits on the Iron Cove foreshore at Lilyfield, with a long north-facing frontage to the cove. The site was selected by Colonial Architect James Barnet for its winter sun and summer breezes and was acquired by the colonial government in 1874. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

From the field notes

Pale blue walls and teal double doors frame a view out to green lawn and flowering shrubs. The linoleum floor is dark, scuffed, reflective. Light enters through tall glass panels and falls across the empty room. A cast-iron radiator sits beneath the windows. A small wooden shelf is fixed to the wall at counter height. Ceiling tiles sag. An emergency exit sign glows above the doorway.

— 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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