Ward Entrance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight illuminates the peeling paint and crumbling facade of a ward entrance at Callan Park. This building once served as part of the Kirkbride psychiatric hospital, established in 1885.

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Print datasheet

Title: Ward Entrance
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-060
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

The entrance to one of the wards at Callan Park, part of the Kirkbride Complex. The facade is sandstone, the entry framed by a stone portico in the original Victorian construction. Peeling paint covers the timber joinery of the doors. The brickwork on the lower walls is intact; the stonework above the entrance is weathered through patches of damp.

The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederick Norton Manning, modelled on the Chartham Down Hospital in Kent. The complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. The hospital was proclaimed as a separate institution on 1 August 1878 and closed on 30 April 2008 after merging into Rozelle Hospital in 1976.

From the field notes

Timber wall bars stand bolted to the corner of a dim room. The parquetry floor is worn to a dark, oily sheen, its herringbone pattern still legible under years of grime. Teal panelled doors line the left wall, closed tight. A half-height partition juts out beside the bars. Through an open doorway on the right, white tiles and a window glow with flat daylight. The air feels close and still.

— 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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