Wheelchair

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 19mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A chrome-framed wheelchair sits in the corner of a derelict ward at Callan Park. Plaster dust and debris cover the concrete floor. Two gridded windows let in flat, grey light.

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Print datasheet

Title: Wheelchair
Series: Callan Park
Catalogue: CPA-066
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 chrome-framed wheelchair sits in the corner of a ward at Callan Park. The chair is fitted with cushioned seat and back, the upholstery stained. Plaster dust and debris cover the concrete floor around the chair. Two gridded windows on the outer wall admit a flat, grey light into the room. The walls of the ward are plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches.

Callan Park merged with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital in 1976. Full hospital closure followed on 30 April 2008, when remaining patients were transferred to Concord Hospital. The hospital had operated continuously from 1 August 1878. The Kirkbride Complex was Australia's first purpose-built hospital for moral therapy, designed by James Barnet and Frederick Norton Manning.

From the field notes

A single wheelchair that has sat in one place for years if not decades.

— 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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