Peeking Through The Blinds at Waterfall Sanatorium, pale green walls hold three windows.
Peeking Through The Blinds at Waterfall Sanatorium, pale green walls hold three windows.

Peeking Through The Blinds

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/60 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight cuts through dusty venetian blinds inside a decaying ward at Waterfall Sanatorium. The view beyond remains obscured, hinting at the overgrown grounds outside this abandoned medical facility.

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Peeking Through The Blinds at Waterfall Sanatorium, pale green walls hold three windows.Peeking Through The Blinds at Waterfall Sanatorium, pale green walls hold three windows.Peeking Through The Blinds at Waterfall Sanatorium, pale green walls hold three windows.Peeking Through The Blinds at Waterfall Sanatorium, pale green walls hold three windows.Peeking Through The Blinds at Waterfall Sanatorium, pale green walls hold three windows.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Peeking Through The Blinds
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-035
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/60 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
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
03 THE STORY

About this print

Sunlight cuts through dusty venetian blinds in a ward at Waterfall Sanatorium. The blinds hang at the window, the slats angled to admit a thin set of light bands across the room. The view beyond the blinds is partly obscured by the slats and the dust on the panes. The room behind is empty.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW. The hospital was the largest TB facility in NSW by 1919, with 788 patients. The sanatorium closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy made the isolation model unnecessary. The older ward buildings have stood largely disused since the closure; the fixtures and fittings remain in place where they were left.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Pale green walls hold three windows. Venetian blinds sag from their brackets, one folded and collapsed at a diagonal across the centre pane. Afternoon sun cuts a sharp rectangle onto the concrete floor. A pillow sits slumped against the far wall. Graffiti tags mark the blinds and plaster. Timber shelving hangs loose on the right, a length of fabric draped over it. Corrugated iron roofing is visible through the glass. The room smells like damp gyprock and dust.

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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07 MORE FROM WATERFALL SANATORIUM

53 other prints in this series

All prints
Bathrooms at Waterfall Sanatorium, a brown vinyl armchair sits centre-frame on a floor thick with plaster dust and debris.
Bathrooms $100.00
Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.
Looking Out $100.00
Hanging Garden at Waterfall Sanatorium, a fern growing in brickwork between two bathroom doors.
Hanging Garden $100.00
Washroom at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow brick corridor opens toward a bank of timber-framed windows.
Washroom $100.00
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