Red Room

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside a decaying ward at Callan Park, a room glows crimson. Peeling paint reveals layers of history, reflecting the former asylum's forgotten stories. Light streams through a grimy window, illuminating the dust.

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Print datasheet

Title: Red Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-039
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 room at Callan Park with red-painted walls. The paint covers the walls in a single colour across the full height of the room, the surface peeling back to bare plaster in patches across the damp. A grimy window on the outer wall admits a thin shaft of light into the room. Dust covers the floor and the lower walls. The room is empty of fittings.

The Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park was built between 1880 and 1884 to a design by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning. The complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

A bay window curves outward from an empty room. Three timber-framed panels let in diffused green light from the overgrown grounds outside. The carpet is grey, matted flat, stained dark in patches. Plaster walls show damp mapping and discolouration. A narrow skirting board of dark-stained timber traces the curve of the bay. Power outlets sit low on the left wall, disconnected.

— 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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