The Corridor

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Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/5 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A view through Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories, shot between the north-west corner section and the wet section toward the A briquette factory, with chimney number 3 and chimney number 4 standing beyond and the power station just out of view. The complex had a minimum of four steel chimneys, supplied under the Mitchell Engineering Group contract and demolished in the 2018 to 2020 program.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: The Corridor
Series: Morwell Power Station
Catalogue: MPS-006
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 March 2017
Camera: NIKON D810
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/5 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Morwell, Victoria, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Morwell, Victoria, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

This view at Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories was shot between the north-west corner section and the wet section, looking toward the first of the briquette factories, the A plant. The line of sight carries on past chimney number 3 and chimney number 4, behind which the power station sits just out of view. The structure frames the approach, the briquette factory ahead and the steel chimneys standing beyond it. The shot reads as a passage through the complex, one part of the works leading to the next, the chimneys marking the far edge of the frame.

The complex had a minimum of four steel chimneys, with heritage records referencing chimneys 3 and 4, the same two standing in this view. The steel chimneys were supplied under the Mitchell Engineering Group contract of 1950. They were progressively demolished during the 2018 to 2020 program. With the demolition of Old Yallourn between 1995 and 1999, Morwell Power Station and Briquette Factories became the earliest surviving large-scale Victorian state-grid power station from the SECV era, the strongest heritage angle named in its Statement of Significance. Brett photographed the corridor on 29 March 2017, in the closed complex before the demolition program began.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A wide concrete corridor runs between two multi-storey industrial buildings. Cream brick and rendered walls rise four levels on each side, rows of steel-framed windows dark and glassless in places. A single red-brick chimney stack climbs from behind the structures into low cloud. Weeds push through cracks in the paving. The ground is bare, gritty, stained with decades of coal dust. No machinery moves. No sound.

Brett Patman

The series

Morwell Power Station

1949-2014 · 79 photographs

The State Electricity Commission of Victoria built Morwell as the centrepiece of its postwar plan to sever Victoria's reliance on black coal from New South Wales. Construction ran from 1949 to 1959; electricity production commenced in December 1958 and the first commercial briquettes followed in December 1959. With the demolition of Old Yallourn between 1995 and 1999, Morwell became the earliest surviving large-scale Victorian state-grid power station, registered on the Victorian Heritage Register as H2377 on 1 March 2018.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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