133 at Parramatta Road, a recessed doorway at 133A Parramatta Road.

133

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/4.5 · 1/60 · ISO 500
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Faded signage clings to a vacant building at 133A Parramatta Road, photographed in 2016. A recessed doorway sits beneath the weathered exterior and boarded windows.

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In situ

133 at Parramatta Road, black-framed print (in-situ_bc3c636b-3c55-401e-b61b-583d0333cd00).

133 at Parramatta Road, raw timber-framed print (in-situ_2cde386f-02df-41ce-a7f4-0495e64323c5).

133 at Parramatta Road, glass print (in-situ_fbbfe4eb-158f-4c4c-9599-d17b82978cc4).

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: 133
Series: Parramatta Road
Catalogue: PRO-002
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 September 2016
Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter: 1/60 s
ISO: 500
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Authenticity: C2PA verified provenance →
Recognised by: Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards

02 LOCATION

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

133A is stencilled in black on the tiled left wall of a recessed shopfront entrance on Parramatta Road, the number sitting above a pair of grey doors thick with graffiti tags. A circular metal vent punctuates the upper panel of the left door, and a crumpled mass of paper and posters has been pushed against the right side of the doorway. Black and orange tiles line the wainscoting along the lower walls, worn and marked with grime. The building behind the entrance is vacant, its windows boarded and its signage faded past reading.

Recessed entries like this one belong to a period when Parramatta Road expected somebody to walk up to a window and look in. The widening of the 1920s and 1930s took that expectation away, pushing the traffic to the kerb and leaving the frontages scaled for vehicles moving past at speed. The tiling survived the change and the trade generally did not. By 2015 more than 100 vacant and derelict stores had been documented along the corridor, and much of that emptiness is held rather than accidental, with owners waiting on the rezoning uplift proposed by the NSW Government's Parramatta Road Urban Transformation Strategy, released in November 2016, two months after this photograph was made.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A recessed doorway on Parramatta Road. The pale blue door sits deep in its alcove, layered thick with graffiti tags in white, gold, purple, pink. Black-tiled dado runs along the base, divided by a thin orange stripe. Blacked-out shopfront windows flank both sides. Crushed rubbish sits on the concrete threshold. A circular vent punctuates the door's upper panel. No light inside.

Brett Patman

The series

Parramatta Road

2017 · 27 photographs

Parramatta Road follows a much older route, used for thousands of years by the Wangal, Wallumedegal, Burramattagal, and Cadigal peoples before colonial adoption around 1789 to 1791. Today it is one of Sydney's main thoroughfares: 23 km of heavy traffic, with used car dealers at the Parramatta end ("Auto Alley") and a mix of historic shopfronts, new apartment blocks, and WestConnex demolition at the eastern end. The series moves between streetscape and individual buildings - 107 Parramatta Road in Annandale (an 1890s Victorian Filigree shopfront with original living quarters above accessible only by ladder), the Marco Polo Motel at Summer Hill, the Olympia Milk Bar in Stanmore, Mario's Meat Market, and shopfronts whose ground floors have been busy for a century while the rooms above have been empty for fifty years.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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