Hanging Scale
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 70mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A rusted hanging scale, its faded dial frozen, hangs in the quiet decay of Leichhardt House. Dust covers the metal, a remnant of forgotten utility in the abandoned dwelling.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Hanging Scale
- Series
- Leichhardt House
- Catalogue
- LEH-003
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 13 June 2020
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 2.5s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 70 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
A rusted iron scale hangs from a heavy chain and ring bolt fixed to the exterior wall. The pan sits empty, its surface pitted and brown with oxidation. Beside it, a small white-framed mirror clings to blackened timber cladding. Paint peels away in thick curls, exposing raw wood grain beneath. Remnants of patterned wallpaper survive in patches where the boards meet. The grain of the hewn log corner post is deep and grey, weathered smooth.
Brett Patman
The series
Leichhardt House
Leichhardt House is a slab hut cottage in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands, around 130 years old. The building has outlasted what was built around it. A larger family home built close by in the early 1900s was destroyed in the 1964-65 fires that swept the Southern Tablelands, and a new home went up in its place. The slab hut survived. The end wall, where the chimney once stood, has been taken out and replaced with large doors so the building can keep working as a shed. The owners hold a photograph from around 1920 showing two young boys standing out the front of the same cottage, against the same slab walls. The Lost Collective photographs sit alongside that older record as a second century-on view of the same place. The exact location and the family who hold it have asked to remain unnamed.
Print sizes
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