Hospital Ward
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/3 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Peeling paint and faded colours mark a forgotten hospital ward within the Queen Victoria Sanitorium. Empty beds once lined this room. Dust motes dance in the light, revealing the quiet decay of a place left behind.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Hospital Ward
- Series
- Queen Victoria Sanitorium
- Catalogue
- QVS-009
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 20 September 2015
- Camera
- NIKON D7000
- Lens
- 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/3 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 24 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia
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A bare room stripped to its bones. Cream-painted timber panelling lines the walls, stained and peeling at the lower edges. An open wardrobe stands empty, its shelves holding nothing. A cast-iron radiator sits below frosted windows tagged with yellow graffiti. The concrete floor is black with mould and moisture damage, old tile lines still faintly visible beneath the grime. Weak daylight pushes through dirty glass.
Brett Patman
The series
Queen Victoria Sanitorium
Queen Victoria Sanitorium opened on 18 February 1903 at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains as a tuberculosis sanatorium for men. The original house was built for Sydney businessman Kelso King, who sold the property to the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Homes for Consumptives Fund after the death of his wife Irene in 1900. The full complex was designed and built between 1902 and 1921. The sanatorium ran for 55 years before becoming a hospital for the aged and chronically ill in 1958 and finally a nursing home, which closed in May 1999. The site is on the local heritage register (item Wf025) but is not on the NSW State Heritage Register. Most of the complex is now in ruin.
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