Rehabilitation Rooms

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 18mm · f/8.0 · 1/20 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Polished concrete floors reflect light through wire-glazed partition walls inside Callan Park Hospital. Painted wainscoting lines the lower walls. A cast-iron radiator sits against the far wall. A jacaranda blooms outside.

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Print datasheet

Title: Rehabilitation Rooms
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-042
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

Polished concrete floors reflect the light entering through wire-glazed partition walls in one of the rehabilitation rooms at Callan Park. Painted wainscoting lines the lower walls of the room. A cast-iron radiator sits against the far wall. Outside the window, a jacaranda is in bloom. The room is empty of fittings.

Callan Park became the first mental hospital in NSW with a laboratory and clinical rooms for scientific work in 1905. Rehabilitation facilities developed across the working decades of the hospital. The complex 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

You can see the old wire mesh windows and a beautiful brightly lit Jacaranda out the window to the right.

— 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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