Factory Floor
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
- Settings
- 36mm · f/4.0 · 1/10 · ISO 250
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Light filters through high windows, illuminating the vast, empty factory floor of the O-I Glass plant. Rusting machinery stands silent, awaiting a production cycle that never comes.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Factory Floor
- Series
- O-I Glass
- Catalogue
- OIG-005
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 18 December 2011
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
- Aperture
- f/4.0
- Shutter
- 1/10 s
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 36 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Thomastown, Victoria, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Thomastown, Victoria, Australia
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A vast industrial floor stretches out beneath a steel-trussed roof. Corrugated metal sheeting runs the full span overhead. Ductwork hangs from the ceiling, its cladding peeled back and buckled. Conical pendant lights dangle at intervals, none lit. The floor is thick with grit, broken glass, and scattered debris. Along the back wall, green-painted machinery housings and electrical panels stand in a row. A metal staircase climbs to a mezzanine level on the right. Pale light enters through tall windows on the left side.
Brett Patman
The series
O-I Glass
Alfred Felton and Frederick Grimwade founded the Melbourne Glass Bottle Works in 1872 at Graham Street, Emerald Hill, to supply their wholesale drug business. In 1890 the company purchased 12 acres on the Yarra at Spotswood and built the new manufacturing plant that would carry on glass production for over a hundred years, through Australian Glass Manufacturers, Australian Consolidated Industries, BTR and Owens-Illinois. The site was demolished by 2012, with only the 115-metre basalt wall on Douglas Parade, known to the workers as the Great Wall of Spotswood, left standing.
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