Fireplace
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Soot-stained bricks frame a derelict fireplace at Mill Pond Farm. Once a source of warmth, only cold ash remains within its crumbling hearth, a silent sentinel of forgotten domestic life.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Fireplace
- Series
- Mill Pond Farm
- Catalogue
- MPF-002
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 21 January 2022
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/8 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Jembaicumbene, 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 brick fireplace stands at the centre of the room, its chimney column rising through a sagging fibro ceiling into the corrugated iron roof above. Timber floorboards have buckled and split, exposing bare earth beneath. Patches of faded linoleum cling to the floor in dull reds and greens. Mould blackens the walls. Sunlight pushes through a gap in the roofing iron, catching dust in the still air. A door hangs open to the right, its timber swollen and grey.
Brett Patman
The series
Mill Pond Farm
Mill Pond Farm sits in Jembaicumbene, near Braidwood, on land first worked as the region's earliest dairy in the 1830s. In 1859 a Yorkshire-born goldminer named Charles Dransfield built a four-storey Steam Flour Mill on the property, designed by Sydney architect Charles Langley. A 24-horsepower steam engine ground wheat, sawed timber, and crushed quartz to extract gold. The mill ran until 1885, when the railway arriving in Tarago undercut local flour prices, the financial depression hit, and repeated wheat rust outbreaks finished the run. The mill, stables, and dairy buildings sat unworked for nearly a century. Restoration is in progress.
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