Utility

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/13 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A disused utility building stands at Callan Park, a former psychiatric hospital. Its weathered brickwork and barred windows reflect decades of service, now left to decay within the historic grounds.

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Print datasheet

Title: Utility
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-058
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

A utility building stands at Callan Park. The brickwork is weathered and patched in places. Barred windows line the upper walls of the building. The roof is slate-tiled in the original construction, with the gutters and downpipes worked back to bare metal in patches. The building has been disused for years; the doors are boarded across the openings.

The Callan Park Conservation Area and Buildings were listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in April 1999. The site had been listed on the National Trust Register in September 1974, supported by 12 listing reports prepared by heritage architect James Semple Kerr. The Callan Park (Special Provisions) Act 2002 protects the open space of the site in perpetuity. The hospital closed in 2008.

From the field notes

A narrow utility room, barely wider than the door that opens into it. Cream tiles line the walls halfway up, their grout darkened with grime. A small ceramic sink sits beneath a frosted window, flanked by two brass taps. A metal dish rack rests in the basin. A second tap protrudes low on the right wall, plumbed for something no longer there. Wet floor tiles catch the pale light. The air feels close and damp.

— 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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