Storage Corner

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dust settles on forgotten objects in a storage corner at Callan Park. Decaying infrastructure reveals its past. Shadows lengthen across the abandoned space, preserving its quiet decline.

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Print datasheet

Title: Storage Corner
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-051
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
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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 storage corner at Callan Park. Forgotten objects sit on shelves and across the floor of the space. The shelves are timber, the surfaces scuffed and stained. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches. Shadows lengthen across the abandoned space as the daylight falls through the window on the outer wall.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full 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

White ceramic tiles line the walls from floor to ceiling. The grout has yellowed. A stained plywood board hangs where a noticeboard or chart once sat. To the left, an open doorway reveals bare shelving, emptied out. A pale green door with a wired glass panel leads somewhere deeper into the building. A stainless steel bench runs along the right wall, its surface dulled but intact. The floor tiles are grey and filthy, scuffed by decades of foot traffic and neglect. Flat light enters through the windows. The air smells like damp and old disinfectant.

— 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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