Faded signage clings to a shopfront at number 167 Parramatta Road, photographed in 2016. Green lettering across the upper windows reads 'Specialising in preowned refrigeration, cooking and catering equipment'.

167

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 32mm · f/4.5 · 1/2000 · ISO 800
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Faded signage clings to a shopfront at number 167 Parramatta Road, photographed in 2016. Green lettering across the upper windows reads 'Specialising in preowned refrigeration, cooking and catering equipment', sun-bleached against white render. Peeling paint reveals layers of past colours. Dust settles on the grimy display window. A broken awning casts a deep shadow.

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In situ

167 at Parramatta Road, black-framed print (in-situ_e6afc4f7-2922-4781-832b-95ca17d92659).

167 at Parramatta Road, raw timber-framed print (in-situ_67b80fe2-baf4-45e9-9269-3d90f0b5ec48).

167 at Parramatta Road, glass print (in-situ_62b7c728-de23-4a6f-8c4f-9adffcc19533).

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: 167
Series: Parramatta Road
Catalogue: PRO-003
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 September 2016
Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter: 1/2000 s
ISO: 800
Focal length: 32 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

Green lettering across the upper windows of number 167 reads "Specialising in preowned refrigeration, cooking and catering equipment", the text sun-bleached and faded against white render. Peeling paint has opened up the layers of colour underneath. A timber power pole crowded with crossarms and wire runs up the right edge of the frame, its lines fanning out across a clear sky. Late afternoon light strikes the facade at a low angle and pools in the reflections across the plate glass below. Dust has settled on the display window and a broken awning throws a deep shadow onto the footpath.

Second-hand commercial kitchen gear is exactly the kind of trade Parramatta Road has carried for decades: bulky, low-margin and dependent on a van being able to pull up out the front. The road was made for that. It was cut as a three metre track by convict labour between 1789 and 1791, widened for carriages in 1794, and stone-paved and reopened by Governor Macquarie on 10 April 1811. The sealing and widening of the 1920s turned it into a motor route, and by 1985 it was carrying 70,000 vehicles a day. The businesses that lasted longest along it were the ones a vehicle could service.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A two-storey commercial building sits hard against Parramatta Road. Green lettering across the upper fascia reads "Specialising in Pre-Owned Refrigeration Cooking & Catering Equipment." Several letters are missing. Late afternoon light turns the cream cladding warm gold. Glass shopfronts below sit empty and dark. Concrete forecourt, cracked at the edges. Power lines cut across a flat blue sky.

Brett Patman

The series

Parramatta Road

27 photographs

Parramatta Road runs west from the edge of Sydney's city centre to Parramatta, on the line of the first overland route between Sydney Town and the settlement first named Rose Hill. Convict labour cut a three-metre-wide track through the bush between 1789 and 1791, and Governor Macquarie opened the road, widened and paved in stone, on 10 April 1811. The photographs, taken from 2016 to 2018, follow it from Auburn to Stanmore, past a used car dealer's building, a motel and a milk bar.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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