Bathrooms

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A brown leather armchair on a black metal frame sits alone in a grimed, tiled room at Waterfall Sanatorium, the word GET OUT sprayed on the wall above a central doorway. Beyond it, a second tiled room opens to a window, sunlight raking across the right-hand wall and floor in hard diagonal shadows. Debris covers the ground, light green graffiti marks the tiles to the right, and rusted metal rails remain fixed to the far wall. This state-run hospital first admitted patients on 14 April 1909 and closed in 1958.

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In situ

Bathrooms at Waterfall Sanatorium, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Bathrooms at Waterfall Sanatorium, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Bathrooms at Waterfall Sanatorium, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Bathrooms
Series: Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue: WSA-003
Process: Giclée
Captured: 24 June 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/8 s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Waterfall, 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

Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A patient bathroom at Waterfall Sanatorium. The walls are tiled to dado height in small-format ceramic, the grout darkened with age and the tiles cracked across patches. The plumbing fixtures are rusted at the fittings, the basins still set in their original positions against the wall. The floor is concrete, scuffed and stained. The fittings have been left in place since the sanatorium closed in 1958.

Waterfall Sanatorium opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, on a site about 26 miles south of Sydney at around 1,000 feet elevation. The location was chosen because medical orthodoxy of the era held that tuberculosis required high, rarefied atmosphere away from city air. The hospital was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912. It closed as a TB sanatorium in 1958 when antibiotics and thoracic surgery made the isolation model unnecessary.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A brown vinyl armchair sits centre-frame on a floor thick with plaster dust and debris. Cream ceramic tiles climb the walls halfway up. A towel rail rusts on the right. Above the doorway, "GET OUT" is scrawled in grey paint. Afternoon light falls in a hard diagonal across the tiled wall behind, catching turquoise graffiti. Through the open doorway, another tiled room leads deeper into the building. A spray can lies on the floor near the skirting.

Brett Patman

The series

Waterfall Sanatorium

2016–2018 · 54 photographs

The first patients arrived at the Hospital for Consumptives, Waterfall on 14 April 1909, with initial provision for 180 men. A women's wing opened in May 1912 for 120; by 1919 it had become the largest sanatorium in New South Wales, holding 788 patients. The site sat at about 1,000 feet (305 m), 26 miles (42 km) south of Sydney, on the medical theory that tuberculosis needed 'high and rarefied atmosphere in the country away from the grime and pollution of cities'.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

Print sizes

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