Fog has settled across a park at Lilyfield, in inner-west Sydney. A timber-pole streetlight throws a hard halo, with the rest of the park dropping into dark. A red-lidded council bin sits at the base of the post.
Fog has settled across a park at Lilyfield, in inner-west Sydney. A timber-pole streetlight throws a hard halo, with the rest of the park dropping into dark. A red-lidded council bin sits at the base of the post.

Dead Silence

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
55mm · f/8.0 · 4s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Fog has settled across a park at Lilyfield, in inner-west Sydney. A timber-pole streetlight throws a hard halo, with the rest of the park dropping into dark. A red-lidded council bin sits at the base of the post. Playground equipment is just visible behind, softened by mist.

Edition
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In situ

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Dead Silence
Process
Giclée
Captured
29 May 2020
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
4s s
ISO
100
Focal length
55 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
297 × 210 mm
Location
Lilyfield, 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

Lilyfield, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

Starburst light from a street lamp bleeds into heavy fog over a park at Lilyfield in inner-west Sydney, washing the surrounding grass and gravel in warm yellow. A red-lidded rubbish bin sits at the base of the timber pole, and a utility post with a small yellow sign marks the edge of the glow. Faint outlines of playground equipment dissolve into the mist beyond. Everything past the near reach of the light is gone.

Brett photographed this on the evening of 29 May 2020, on the Nikon D850, in a four-second exposure that pulls the lamp into a hard starburst and lets the fog do the rest. The Landscapes collection covers his wider travel photography across Australia and Japan rather than the abandoned-places work the Lost Collective is built on, and there is nothing of note in this park in daylight: a bin, a sign, a lamp post, mown grass. The fog is the whole picture. It turns an ordinary park light into the only legible thing in the frame and reduces the playground behind it to shapes. The title is about the quality of the quiet rather than about the place.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A single sodium vapour streetlight burns on a timber power pole. Thick fog absorbs the amber glow within a few metres, dissolving everything beyond into black. Wet grass catches the light at ground level. A red-lidded council bin sits at the base of the pole, half in shadow. No movement. No figures. The air looks dense enough to taste.

Brett Patman

05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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06 REVIEWS · 1 FROM CUSTOMER

What collectors say

  1. Susie H.

    31 May 2021

    Happy Art Lover

    I bought this for my uncle for his 70th birthday, which felt like a bit of a risk. I shouldn’t have been surprised that he loves it as much as I do. Customer service was also excellent.
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