Laundry
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 44mm · f/8.0 · 1/200 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Faded garments hang still in a derelict laundry on Parramatta Road. Dust motes dance in the quiet air, illuminating forgotten domesticity. This scene evokes the slow decay of everyday life.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Laundry
- Series
- Parramatta Road
- Catalogue
- PRO-026
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 1 October 2018
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/200 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 44 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
About this print
A laundry, or at least that’s what the sign says. Something about its stark frontage, the faded lettering, and the complete absence of visible activity makes it feel more like a front for something else entirely. No cars, no movement - just the long, sharp shadows of late afternoon sun stretching across its face. Overhead, a tangle of powerlines crisscrosses the sky, adding to the quiet tension of this moment on an otherwise busy road.
Brett Patman
The series
Parramatta Road
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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