Daylight

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/400 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Daylight illuminates a forgotten ward inside Waterfall Sanatorium. This New South Wales tuberculosis hospital operated from 1909, isolating patients. Now, peeling paint and silent corridors speak of its past.

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Daylight at Waterfall Sanatorium, a wide room stripped bare.Daylight at Waterfall Sanatorium, a wide room stripped bare.Daylight at Waterfall Sanatorium, a wide room stripped bare.Daylight at Waterfall Sanatorium, a wide room stripped bare.Daylight at Waterfall Sanatorium, a wide room stripped bare.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Daylight
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-012
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/400 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

Daylight enters a ward room at Waterfall Sanatorium through windows along the outer wall. The light falls across the floor and the plastered walls. The walls carry the marks of successive paint layers, peeling back across patches of damp to reveal the older colours underneath. The room is empty of fittings.

Waterfall Sanatorium operated as the Hospital for Consumptives from 14 April 1909 and was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912. The site sits on bush land approximately 26 miles south of Sydney at around 1,000 feet elevation. It was the principal NSW hospital for tuberculosis treatment until antibiotic therapy made the sanatorium model unnecessary. The sanatorium closed in 1958.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A wide room stripped bare. Fluorescent fittings hang dead from the ceiling. A bank of windows runs the full length of the far wall, letting hard daylight fall across a floor thick with grit, broken glass, and collapsed aluminium strips. Graffiti covers every reachable surface below the window line. Through the glass, corrugated iron rooftops and eucalyptus canopy sit under a pale sky.

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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