Organ

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.4s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

An electronic organ with exposed pedals sits abandoned in a room at Waterfall Sanatorium. Broken furniture, scattered debris, and graffiti-marked walls surround it. Fluorescent tubes hang from the ceiling. Red-trimmed windows frame the room.

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In situ

Organ at Waterfall Sanatorium, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Organ at Waterfall Sanatorium, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

Organ at Waterfall Sanatorium, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Organ
Series: Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue: WSA-033
Process: Giclée
Captured: 24 June 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.4s 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

02 LOCATION

Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

An electronic organ with exposed pedals sits in a room at Waterfall Sanatorium. Broken furniture and scattered debris surround it, and graffiti marks the walls. Fluorescent tubes hang from the ceiling. Red-trimmed windows frame the room.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW. The hospital was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912 and held 788 patients by 1919, the largest TB facility in NSW. It closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy and thoracic surgery made the isolation model unnecessary. The site converted to Garrawarra Hospital and then to the Garrawarra Centre for the Aged, whose buildings mix older Waterfall fabric with later additions.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A wooden organ sits against the far wall, its keys and stops exposed. Vinyl cushions lie heaped beside overturned shelving units. Cables trail across a concrete floor thick with grit and splintered timber. Red-framed windows let flat daylight into the room. Spray-painted anarchy symbols and tags cover the plaster. A ceiling fan hangs still. The air looks heavy, warm, dense with dust.

Brett Patman

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

Print sizes

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