Ward Hallway 2

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A silent hallway stretches through a former ward at Callan Park. Peeling paint and dim light define the abandoned asylum's interior. This historic institution once housed Sydney's mentally ill.

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Print datasheet

Title: Ward Hallway 2
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-063
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 hallway runs through one of the former wards at Callan Park. Peeling paint covers the walls of the corridor. Dim light enters through windows at the landings along the run. The floor is timber boards, scuffed at the centre by years of working use. The corridor extends through the length of the ward block to the door at the far end.

Callan Park was proclaimed as a separate institution from Gladesville on 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was built between 1880 and 1884 by Colonial Architect James Barnet and Inspector General of the Insane Frederick Norton Manning. The complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy. The hospital merged with Broughton Hall in 1976 and closed on 30 April 2008.

From the field notes

A narrow corridor runs between pale green walls, their paint darkened by years of grime and water staining. Timber handrails line both sides, fixed to the walls with heavy iron brackets at regular intervals. The vinyl floor is scuffed and littered with debris. Light spills in from a doorway on the left, catching the wet sheen of the floor surface. At the far end, a set of double doors sits closed.

— 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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