Ward Hall

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dust motes dance inside Ward Hall, a forgotten wing of Callan Park's former Broughton Hall psychiatric hospital. Sunlight illuminates peeling paint and vacant rooms. This architecture holds a profound, silent history.

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Print datasheet

Title: Ward Hall
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-061
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 ward hall in the Broughton Hall section of the Callan Park site. Sunlight enters through the windows along the outer wall and falls across the floor of the room. Peeling paint covers the walls. The floor is timber boards, scuffed and stained from years of working use. The hall is empty of furniture.

Broughton Hall was constructed on the adjoining estate in 1842 and was integrated into Rozelle Hospital from 1976 onwards, when the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane and Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic merged. Broughton Hall was listed on the NSW State Heritage Register in April 1999. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008. The site is now public parkland under Greater Sydney Parklands.

From the field notes

A narrow corridor runs deep into the ward building. Linoleum floors carry scuff marks and grime, their surface catching a slick reflection from the window at the far end. Timber doors stand open on the left. Fire extinguishers sit mounted in their brackets, red against grey-green walls. A painted sign overhead still reads "Fire Extinguisher." Metal handrails line the right wall, bolted at regular intervals. The ceiling is low, stained, fluorescent fittings dark.

— 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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