Colour Room

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/125 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Graffiti covers the walls of an abandoned ward at Waterfall Sanatorium. An arched doorway opens onto a long corridor. Window light cuts across the concrete floor. Debris collects beneath the sill.

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Colour Room at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight cuts through a pair of tall windows and falls across a bare concrete floor.Colour Room at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight cuts through a pair of tall windows and falls across a bare concrete floor.Colour Room at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight cuts through a pair of tall windows and falls across a bare concrete floor.Colour Room at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight cuts through a pair of tall windows and falls across a bare concrete floor.Colour Room at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight cuts through a pair of tall windows and falls across a bare concrete floor.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Colour Room
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-009
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/125 s
ISO
100
Focal length
14 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
03 THE STORY

About this print

Graffiti covers the walls of an abandoned ward at Waterfall Sanatorium. An arched doorway opens onto a long corridor at the back of the room. Window light cuts across the concrete floor in flat panels. Debris collects beneath the window sill. The walls hold layers of paint from successive periods, with the graffiti overlaid on top.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW, treating advanced and chronic tuberculosis. The sanatorium was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912 and reached 788 patients by 1919, the largest TB facility in NSW. It closed in 1958. The older ward buildings have stood disused since; graffiti has accumulated across the wards through the abandoned decades.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Sunlight cuts through a pair of tall windows and falls across a bare concrete floor. The walls are covered in dense, layered graffiti. Greens, pinks, purples, black outlines. An arched doorway opens into a long corridor that recedes into shadow. A discarded appliance and broken fittings sit heaped beneath the windowsill. Scuffed floor tiles have lifted away in patches, exposing the slab beneath. Through the glass, rusted corrugated roofing and a salmon-pink neighbouring building are visible.

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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