Rehabilitation Ward

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/5 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight penetrates a forgotten rehabilitation ward at Callan Park. Decaying walls and scattered remnants reveal the past life of this former psychiatric hospital, now silent.

Edition

Open edition

Open edition
Printed to order, no fixed quantity. Each print is hand-signed by the photographer.

Limited edition
A fixed number of prints exist. Once sold, the edition closes permanently. Each print is individually numbered and signed.

$100.00 AUD

Colour

Signed, numbered, with COA. Made to order in 3 to 5 business days. Shipped in protective packaging with edition certificate, paper-stock reference and a printed care guide.

See certificate sample →

Shipping Free Australian shipping over $250. Ships internationally, rates calculated at checkout.

Returns Damaged in transit? We replace it. Full policy →

Ships within 10 business days · signed & numbered

In situ

Print datasheet

Title: Rehabilitation Ward
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-043
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

Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap

About this print

Sunlight enters a rehabilitation ward at Callan Park. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches across the upper sections. The floor is timber boards, scuffed and stained at the centre of the room. Tall windows along one wall admit the daylight. The fittings have been removed from the ward; the residential proportions of the room remain.

Callan Park's special admission wards for curable cases, opened in 1905 under Inspector General Eric Sinclair, were the forerunner of voluntary treatment without committal in NSW. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

Light falls through a pair of green double doors and spreads across a dark polished floor. The surface is scratched, scuffed, still reflective enough to mirror the window frames and ceiling panels above. Cast-iron radiators sit low against the walls on either side. Glass-panelled service counters flank the entrance. The room is wide and completely empty. A green 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.

View all in this series →

How big is each print

Print sizes.

The anatomy view shows what this finish is as a physical object — paper margin, mat band, frame depth, acrylic profile. The comparison strip shows how each size sits relative to the others at true scale. Click a size or a finish to update both.