Lone Chair

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 0.3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A floral armchair sits at the centre of a vast day room. Arched recesses line the cream-coloured walls, covered in graffiti. Ceiling fans hang still. Debris scattered across a concrete floor.

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Lone Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a floral armchair sits alone at the centre of a large hall.Lone Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a floral armchair sits alone at the centre of a large hall.Lone Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a floral armchair sits alone at the centre of a large hall.Lone Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a floral armchair sits alone at the centre of a large hall.Lone Chair at Waterfall Sanatorium, a floral armchair sits alone at the centre of a large hall.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Lone Chair
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-028
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.3s 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
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
03 THE STORY

About this print

A floral armchair sits at the centre of a day room at Waterfall Sanatorium. Arched recesses line the cream-coloured walls of the room, the surfaces covered in graffiti. Ceiling fans hang still from the ceiling above the chair. Debris is scattered across the concrete floor around the chair. The chair has been positioned at the centre of the room by someone accessing the building after closure.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW. The sanatorium was the principal NSW treatment centre for advanced and chronic tuberculosis, with 370 beds by 1914 and 788 patients by 1919. It closed in 1958. The day rooms in the older fabric of the site have stood largely disused since; the rooms now hold the accumulated traces of post-closure access.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A floral armchair sits alone at the centre of a large hall. Cream walls curve into arched recesses, every surface tagged with aerosol graffiti in greens, pinks, blacks. Ceiling fans hang motionless from a flat industrial ceiling. The concrete floor is filthy, scattered with broken plaster and debris. Light enters through a doorway to the right and an arched window on the left, catching the polished grime underfoot.

Brett Patman

Waterfall Sanatorium

The series

Waterfall Sanatorium

2016–2018 · 54 photographs

Waterfall Sanatorium opened on 14 April 1909, twenty-six miles south of Sydney at an elevation chosen for what the era's medical orthodoxy called "high and rarefied atmosphere". By 1919 it held seven hundred and eighty-eight patients and was the largest sanatorium in New South Wales. It closed as a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1958.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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