Passer By

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/4.5 · 1/400 · ISO 500
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

On Parramatta Road, a figure moves past a faded shopfront. A two-storey brick building sits hard against the road.

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In situ

Passer By at Parramatta Road, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Passer By at Parramatta Road, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Passer By at Parramatta Road, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Passer By
Series: Parramatta Road
Catalogue: PRO-013
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 September 2016
Camera: NIKON D750
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter: 1/400 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

A figure moves past a faded shopfront on Parramatta Road, caught mid-stride against a two-storey brick building that sits hard against the roadway. There is no setback in front of the building and no room on the footpath for anything other than passing. The photograph was made in the late afternoon of 4 September 2016.

Parramatta Road is not a street people walk along by choice, and that is a design outcome rather than a failure of character. The widening of the 1920s and 1930s took the space out of the frontages, leaving buildings at the kerb and a footpath narrow enough to make walking a transaction rather than a pastime. By 1981 the road was carrying 55,000 vehicles a day, and 70,000 by 1985. A single pedestrian is unusual enough in the frame to become its subject. The road was cut as a walking and cart route between 1789 and 1791 and carried people on foot for most of its first century, which is the part of its history the present width has made hardest to picture.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A two-storey brick building sits hard against Parramatta Road. The ground-floor shopfront is shuttered and dark, its plate glass windows blacked out and layered in graffiti. Tags in white paint repeat across the surface. Teal ceramic tiles line the base. A steel awning with bare bulb fittings extends over the footpath. Above, a large monochrome mural covers the upper brickwork. A figure in a blue hoodie walks past without stopping. Late afternoon light catches the upper storey warm and orange.

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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