Scratch
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 1.6s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A solitary scratch deeply etches the peeling paint of a wall within Female Ward 9. This mark in the abandoned psychiatric ward offers a stark glimpse into the forgotten experiences of its former occupants.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Scratch
- Series
- Callan Park
- Catalogue
- CPA-018
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 1 March 2019
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1.6s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
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A small cell with pale cream walls. Paint peels in thick, cracked sheets, curling away from the plaster in every direction. On the right wall, deep scratches radiate outward in a deliberate sunburst pattern, scored through multiple layers of paint down to the render beneath. Faint drawings mark the left wall. A barred window with wire mesh lets in narrow bands of daylight. Flakes of paint litter the concrete floor.
Brett Patman
The series
Callan Park
Dr Frederic Norton Manning rejected the asylum as 'a cemetery for deceased intellects'. In 1876 he toured asylums in England, France, Germany and the United States, returning with drawings of Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. Working with Colonial Architect James Barnet and Botanic Gardens director Charles Moore, he built Australia's first hospital purpose-built for moral therapy treatment on the Iron Cove foreshore.
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