Prep Kitchen

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 0.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Stainless steel benches run the length of the prep kitchen at Callan Park Hospital. A commercial oven sits centred beneath curved clerestory windows. Teal cabinetry lines the walls. Vinyl floor tiles. A ceiling fan. No movement.

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Print datasheet

Title: Prep Kitchen
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-037
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

Stainless steel benches run the length of the prep kitchen at Callan Park. A commercial oven sits centred beneath curved clerestory windows on the outer wall. Teal cabinetry lines the walls. The floor is vinyl tile, scuffed at the working positions. A ceiling fan hangs still above the room. The fittings have been left in place since the building was last used.

Callan Park's catering supported a patient population that peaked at 1,500 by 1930. The Kirkbride Complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, with kitchens and service spaces sized for the residential needs of the working hospital. The site merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976 and closed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

Stainless steel benchtops line three walls of an institutional kitchen. A commercial warming unit sits centre, its drawers pulled half open. Pale green cupboards hang above the counters, their metal faces smudged with grime. A curved bank of louvre windows floods the room with flat afternoon light. Tiled floor, small square format, discoloured and dull. A ceiling fan hangs still. A fire blanket sign on the far wall. Nothing cooking. No smell but cold steel and dust.

— 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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