Rehabilitation Room

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 16mm · f/8.0 · 1/13 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A large vacant room at Callan Park. Pale green walls. Frosted glass windows diffuse flat light across a polished concrete floor. A cast iron radiator sits beneath the window. A ceiling fan hangs still overhead.

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Print datasheet

Title: Rehabilitation Room
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-041
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 large vacant room at Callan Park. The walls are pale green, the paint peeling in patches across the surface. Frosted glass windows diffuse a flat light across the polished concrete floor. A cast-iron radiator sits beneath one of the windows. A ceiling fan hangs still above the room. The fittings of the rehabilitation function have been removed.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008. The hospital had operated continuously from 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning. The site is now public parkland managed by Greater Sydney Parklands.

From the field notes

Diffused light presses through frosted glass panels, flooding the polished concrete floor. The surface is scratched and scuffed, worn smooth by decades of foot traffic. Pale green walls rise to a high corrugated ceiling. A single fan hangs motionless. Cast-iron radiators sit beneath the windows, long cold. Stainless steel benchtops line the far wall. A door stands open to a dim corridor beyond. The room is empty. The air feels still and clinical.

— 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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