Ward Hallway

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

An empty hallway stretches through a former ward at Callan Park. Peeling paint reveals layers of history on walls that once witnessed the daily life of a significant psychiatric hospital.

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Print datasheet

Title: Ward Hallway
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-062
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

An empty hallway runs through one of the wards at Callan Park. The walls are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches and revealing layers of earlier paintwork underneath. The floor is timber boards, scuffed at the centre of the run. The hallway extends to a door at the far end of the building.

Callan Park was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning, with ten ward blocks linked by a continuous covered veranda. The hospital was proclaimed on 1 August 1878 and merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 to form Rozelle Hospital. Full closure followed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

A pale green steel door sits at the end of a short corridor. Its kick plate is scratched bare. A wired glass panel reflects faint light from somewhere deeper inside the building. The terrazzo floor is polished smooth from decades of foot traffic. Partition walls on either side create narrow openings, their surfaces scuffed and stained at shoulder height. Thin strips of daylight edge in from both flanks. The air looks cold 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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