Porch Saws
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/40 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Weathered timber frames a quiet porch at Leichhardt House, where a series of saws rests. Their rusted teeth and worn handles speak of past labour, now abandoned to the slow decay of time.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Porch Saws
- Series
- Leichhardt House
- Catalogue
- LEH-009
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 13 June 2020
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/40 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 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 large circular saw blade leans against weathered timber cladding on a narrow verandah. Rust has turned the steel a deep orange-brown. The teeth are still sharp. Corrugated iron overhead filters soft light across bare dirt and broken floorboards. A gap in the decking exposes the void beneath. Further along the porch, a rusted milk can and old machinery parts sit against the wall. Green paddock stretches flat beyond the verandah posts.
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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