Room 1

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

Light filters through a grimy window into a decaying room at Callan Park. Paint peels from the walls, revealing layers of plaster and time. Dust covers the floor, undisturbed for years.

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Print datasheet

Title: Room 1
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-044
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

Light enters through a grimy window into one of the rooms at Callan Park. Paint peels from the walls in patches, revealing the layers of plaster and earlier paintwork underneath. Dust covers the floor, undisturbed across the years since the building was last used. The room is otherwise empty, the fittings removed.

Callan Park was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning, with ten ward blocks linked by a continuous covered veranda on the Iron Cove foreshore at Lilyfield. The hospital was proclaimed in 1878 and closed in 2008, after merging into Rozelle Hospital in 1976.

From the field notes

A white door marked "ROOM 1" stands open against a steel-framed partition wall. Glass panels run across the upper section. The lower half is clad in dark, scuffed sheeting. A cast iron radiator sits against the far left wall, its paint oxidised to a deep rust. The linoleum floor carries decades of wear, grey and faintly reflective. Light enters cold and flat. The air feels institutional.

— 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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