Laundry
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/2 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The laundry room at Waterfall Sanatorium remains silent, its industrial machines frozen. Peeling paint and rust cover the surfaces, while sunlight penetrates grimy windows. This space once processed uniforms and linens for the sanatorium's patients.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Laundry
- Series
- Waterfall Sanatorium
- Catalogue
- WSA-027
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 24 June 2018
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/2 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
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
About this print
A blue vinyl chair sits beneath a window in a narrow room. Red spray paint covers the far wall in bubble letters. Paint peels from every surface in thick curls, exposing plaster and bare render underneath. PVC pipes run along the walls where fixtures have been ripped out. A red cushion lies on the wet concrete floor beside scattered debris. Green algae blooms where water pools. White tiles remain on the right wall, half intact. The air here smells of damp and mould.
Brett Patman
The series
Waterfall Sanatorium
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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