Curtains

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 0.8s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Faded curtains drape across a window in the abandoned Waterfall Sanatorium. Their tattered fabric catches the muted light, a fragile remnant from a forgotten era within these decaying walls.

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In situ

Curtains at Waterfall Sanatorium, floral curtains still hang from their rails across two louvre windows.Curtains at Waterfall Sanatorium, floral curtains still hang from their rails across two louvre windows.Curtains at Waterfall Sanatorium, floral curtains still hang from their rails across two louvre windows.Curtains at Waterfall Sanatorium, floral curtains still hang from their rails across two louvre windows.Curtains at Waterfall Sanatorium, floral curtains still hang from their rails across two louvre windows.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Curtains
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-011
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.8s 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

Faded curtains drape across a window in one of the ward rooms at Waterfall Sanatorium. The fabric is tattered, the colour bleached out where sun has worked across it for decades. The window behind the curtains is intact, the panes coated in dust. The wall around the window is plastered and painted, the paint peeling in patches. The room is otherwise empty.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW. The hospital was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912 and was the largest tuberculosis facility in NSW by 1919, with 788 patients in residence. The sanatorium closed in 1958 when antibiotic treatment made the isolation model unnecessary. The older buildings have stood largely disused since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Floral curtains still hang from their rails across two louvre windows. Light presses through broken glass and lands flat on the concrete floor. A wall-mounted basin has been torn away, leaving exposed pipework and a dark stain down the plaster. A timber shelving unit leans open on the left, its door sprayed with graffiti. More graffiti covers the right wall in sharp colour. Debris, plaster fragments, and a crushed paper cup sit undisturbed on the ground.

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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