Magazine Wall

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
24mm · f/8.0 · 1/25 · ISO 320
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight illuminates the textured surface of a magazine wall at Newington Armory. Faded paint peels from the concrete, revealing decades of service. This structure once stored munitions for the Royal Australian Navy.

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Print datasheet

Title
Magazine Wall
Series
Newington Armory
Catalogue
NAR-016
Process
Giclée
Captured
11 October 2019
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Silverwater, New South Wales, Australia

From the field notes

A narrow passage runs between thick brick walls. An iron-clad door stands open at the entrance, its surface dark and pitted, studded with heavy rivets. Overhead, concrete lintels span the gap at intervals, open to the sky between them. Green paint clings to a doorframe further down the corridor. An arched opening sits at the far end. Damp has stained the brickwork in uneven patches. The air looks still and close.

— Brett Patman

Newington Armory

The series

Newington Armory

2019 · 21 photographs

The Newington Armory operated as a Royal Australian Navy munitions depot from 1897 until decommissioning in 1999. Sandstone and brick magazines line the Parramatta River foreshore, their walls a metre thick in places, engineered to contain the force of an accidental detonation. The site now sits within Sydney Olympic Park, its original stores largely intact, paint peeling from heavy timber doors, river light filtering through narrow vents cut into stone.

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