Looking South

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/125 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A cracked internal road runs south between a corrugated iron shed and a massive concrete processing tower. An enclosed conveyor bridge crosses overhead. Weeds push through the bitumen. A yellow safety rail stands at a doorway to the left.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Looking South
Series: Kandos Cement Works
Catalogue: KCW-019
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 February 2016
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/125 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Kandos, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Kandos, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Looking south across the Kandos Cement Works, the photograph takes in a stretched landscape of conveyor bridges, structural towers, and the rooflines of the kiln and mill buildings. The conveyors run between the towers in elevated steel cages, lifting raw materials and clinker from one stage of the process to the next. The towers are guyed and braced, painted pale grey or left as bare galvanised metal. In the middle distance, the kiln building stretches across the frame, its corrugated roof pitched against the western sky. The hills behind the plant are sandstone, cleared of large vegetation and showing the cuttings of the original quarries.

The Kandos plant was laid out in the 1910s and 1920s on a grid that followed the production sequence: quarries on one side, raw mill in the middle, kiln in the centre, cement mill, silos, dispatch on the far side. The conveyor bridges in this photograph link those stages. They were the working veins of the plant for ninety-five years, running every day except scheduled maintenance. When the works closed in September 2011, the bridges stopped. Some of the cabling has been cut for salvage. Most of the steelwork is still where it was put.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Looking south from the raw end of the plant, the scale of the operation is still apparent, with conveyor bridges linking different sections of the process and towering industrial structures casting long shadows over the site.

Brett Patman

The series

Kandos Cement Works

2016 · 40 photographs

The town's first name was Candos, an acronym of the directors' surnames at the NSW Cement Lime and Coal Company. They bought 100 acres from local farmer John Lloyd Junior for £2,000 in 1913 and had surveyor James Dawson lay out the township. The Postmaster General ruled the name change to Kandos in 1915, and by August 1916 the kilns at the new cement works were firing.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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