Loading Area
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/4.0 · 1/6 · ISO 250
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Dust settles on the vast concrete floor of the O-I Glass factory's loading area. Faded yellow lines mark the empty bays. Grimy windows cast a soft, diffused light across the silent, abandoned space.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Loading Area
- Series
- O-I Glass
- Catalogue
- OIG-010
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 18 December 2011
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/4.0
- Shutter
- 1/6 s
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 24 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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Steel roof trusses span the full width of the loading bay, their framework exposed where cladding has failed. Overcast light falls through the open roof structure and washes the brickwork grey. A small control booth sits to the right, its glass panels shattered. Timber, metal sheeting and broken concrete cover the floor in a dense pile. The air looks thick with dust and damp.
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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