Clinic Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty.
Clinic Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty.

Clinic Chair

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
22mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A weathered clinic chair sits abandoned in a room at Waterfall Sanatorium. Dust motes dance in shafts of light, revealing the peeling paint and rust that now claim this forgotten medical space.

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Clinic Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty.Clinic Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty.Clinic Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty.Clinic Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty.Clinic Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Clinic Chair
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-008
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1.3s s
ISO
100
Focal length
22 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 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
03 THE STORY

About this print

A clinic chair sits in a room at Waterfall Sanatorium. The chair is timber-framed with upholstered seat and back, the fabric worn and stained. The walls of the room are plastered and painted, the paint peeling back across patches of damp. The floor is concrete, dust-covered. Shafts of daylight enter through the window on the outer wall.

Waterfall Sanatorium opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives. It was the principal NSW state hospital for tuberculosis treatment, holding 370 beds by 1914 and 788 patients by 1919. The sanatorium closed in 1958 when antibiotics rendered the isolation model unnecessary. The fittings have stood across the abandoned decades on the older parts of the site.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A single padded chair sits off-centre on a brick-paved floor, angled toward empty wall-mounted cabinets. A steel rangehood juts from the upper wall. White ceramic tiles run halfway up every surface, cracked and chipped at the edges. Graffiti covers nearly every vertical plane. Paint flakes and plaster dust scatter across the brickwork. A plastic bottle lies on its side near the far wall. Pale light enters through a louvred window on the left.

Brett Patman

Waterfall Sanatorium

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

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07 MORE FROM WATERFALL SANATORIUM

53 other prints in this series

All prints
Bathrooms at Waterfall Sanatorium, a brown vinyl armchair sits centre-frame on a floor thick with plaster dust and debris.
Bathrooms $100.00
Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.
Looking Out $100.00
Hanging Garden at Waterfall Sanatorium, a fern growing in brickwork between two bathroom doors.
Hanging Garden $100.00
Washroom at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow brick corridor opens toward a bank of timber-framed windows.
Washroom $100.00
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