Volleyball
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 70mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A solitary volleyball rests on the cracked gymnasium court at Macquarie Boys Technology High. The school, operational from 1973, closed in 2010, its halls now empty.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Volleyball
- Series
- Macquarie Boys Technology High
- Catalogue
- MBT-027
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 24 October 2015
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 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
- Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia
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A volleyball sits on a concrete floor beneath heavy timber bracing. Its leather skin is cracked and peeling away in dry flakes, the surface split to expose layers underneath. A length of blue cord trails beside it. Scattered debris, plastic bottles, and paint chips cover the ground. Low light cuts sideways through the subfloor space, casting long shadows from the posts and cross-braces.
Brett Patman
The series
Macquarie Boys Technology High
Macquarie Boys Technology High School began in 1944 as Parramatta Boys Junior High School, was renamed Macquarie Boys High in 1956, and added the Technology suffix in the early 1990s to emphasise a technology-focused curriculum. The campus moved to its final site on the corner of Kissing Point Road and James Ruse Drive at the end of 1957. Enrolment peaked at 850 in the 1990s before reputation problems and falling student numbers prompted the Department of Education to wind the school down. Years 7 to 10 were discontinued at the start of 2008 and the last Year 12 cohort finished at the end of 2009. The site has stood empty since. A 2016 arson attack severely damaged the school hall. As of late 2024 the site was the subject of a Property and Development NSW market sounding for redevelopment.
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