The Way Out

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Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Light spills into an abandoned corridor at Lewisham Hospital. Peeling paint and silent doorways mark the path through this former medical centre. The hospital closed in 1993, its wards now empty.

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The Way Out at Lewisham Hospital, a bare room stripped to its bones.The Way Out at Lewisham Hospital, a bare room stripped to its bones.The Way Out at Lewisham Hospital, a bare room stripped to its bones.The Way Out at Lewisham Hospital, a bare room stripped to its bones.The Way Out at Lewisham Hospital, a bare room stripped to its bones.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
The Way Out
Series
Lewisham Hospital
Catalogue
LHO-024
Process
Giclée
Captured
28 January 2019
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1.3s 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
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia

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04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A bare room stripped to its bones. Plaster walls carry a faint green-grey discolouration, darker near the floor where damp has crept upward for years. Timber-framed windows with wired glass line the left wall. A single doorway opens to a smaller room beyond, and light from an outside window floods through it, pooling bright across worn parquetry. A fluorescent tube hangs dead from the ceiling. Electrical fittings remain bolted to the right wall. Nothing else.

Brett Patman

Lewisham Hospital

The series

Lewisham Hospital

2019 · 26 photographs

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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