Magazine Wall Fern
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/400 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
A lush fern clings to a concrete wall inside a former magazine at Newington Armory. Nature reclaims the industrial structure, its roots finding purchase in the decaying surface.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Magazine Wall Fern
- Series
- Newington Armory
- Catalogue
- NAR-017
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 11 October 2019
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/400 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Silverwater, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Dark sandstone brickwork rises at a steep angle, shot from ground level looking up the face of a magazine wall. Lichen marks the stone in pale circles. Ferns push through the mortar joints at the parapet edge, bright green against grey cloud cover. The fronds catch what little light breaks through. Damp sits in every crack.
Brett Patman
The series
Newington Armory
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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