Hollow Room
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 1.6s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A disused room stands empty inside Lewisham Hospital. Light enters through a high window, illuminating peeling paint and decaying plaster. This former medical facility now surrenders to the quiet processes of time and neglect.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Hollow Room
- Series
- Lewisham Hospital
- Catalogue
- LHO-015
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 28 January 2019
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1.6s s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia
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Green light filters through five windows, thick with vine growth pressing against the glass. The room is wide and bare. Patterned vinyl tiles cover the floor, worn smooth and dark with grime. Ceiling panels sag between steel frames. A fire alarm panel sits on the far wall, still bolted in place. Wall-mounted air conditioning units hang above the windows, disconnected. The air looks heavy and damp.
Brett Patman
The series
Lewisham Hospital
Lewisham Hospital was opened on 9 June 1889 by Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, on the site where the Little Company of Mary -- the Blue Nuns -- had established their Sydney convent in 1887. Originally named the Children's Hospital of the Holy Child, it admitted women and children only until male patients were accepted from 1912. Over the following decades it became one of Sydney's main general hospitals and nurse training schools. It closed in 1988, a century of Catholic healthcare on one block of West Street, Lewisham. The Lost Collective photographs are of the novitiate building, the wing where new entrants to the order were trained, which sits within the broader hospital, convent, and grounds complex. The historic complex is listed as a local heritage item under the Inner West LEP (formerly Marrickville LEP 2011), within the Lewisham North Precinct. The convent chapel, in a revival Byzantine style with a 1927 Möller pipe organ, still stands on the site.
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