Confectionery Warehouse

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/5.0 · 1/100 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Bubble-style graffiti tags crowd the corrugated upper facade of a building on Parramatta Road, with 'Base Brome' stencilled above an arrow pointing left. Below, a brick wall carries 4 overlapping posters and red and white spray tags. A bus stop marker for route 24 stands at the kerb, and a utility pole rises in front of the painted surface.

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In situ

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Confectionery Warehouse
Series: Parramatta Road
Catalogue: PRO-008
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 September 2016
Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/5.0
Shutter: 1/100 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 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

A confectionery warehouse on Parramatta Road carries the painted name of the business across the upper face of the building. The lettering is in a serif face once chosen for visibility from the highway. Below the sign, the shopfront has been boarded over with sheet metal. The windows of the upper floor are intact but darkened. The building is a single-block commercial building in the corridor's typical post-war form: ground-floor commercial, narrow upper floor, painted parapet at the top. The brick face has been overpainted multiple times across the decades; the underlying paint scheme shows through at the edges where the top coat has weathered.

Parramatta Road runs west from Sydney's CBD as the city's oldest arterial road, and the corridor's commercial buildings track the long arc of inner-Sydney industry from the late nineteenth century to the present. Confectioners, fabric retailers, hardware merchants, and motor-trade businesses lined the road through its peak commercial period; many of those businesses are gone, with the buildings still standing under shuttered fronts. The corridor has been the subject of redevelopment proposals for decades. Brett photographed the building in September 2016, when the boarded shopfront still carried the original commercial signage and the upper floor had not yet been touched by the next round of development.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

The tags go all the way to the roofline, which means someone made the effort. Whatever the confectionery warehouse used to produce, the street has redecorated it thoroughly.

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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