Looking Out

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/320 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight filters through a broken window at Waterfall Sanatorium. The grimy pane frames a view of dense, overgrown bushland. This former tuberculosis hospital, opened in 1909, now stands in quiet decay, its wards long empty.

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Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Looking Out
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-030
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/320 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

Sunlight enters through a broken window at Waterfall Sanatorium. The grimy panes frame a view of dense, overgrown bushland beyond the building. The window sash is timber, weathered through patches of damp. The wall around the window is plastered, the paint peeling. The room behind the window is empty.

Waterfall Sanatorium sits on bush land approximately 26 miles south of Sydney at around 1,000 feet elevation. The site was chosen for its bush setting under the medical thinking of the era, which held that tuberculosis required high, rarefied atmosphere. The sanatorium opened on 14 April 1909 and was the largest TB facility in NSW by 1919. It closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy changed the model of treatment.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.

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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