Pump Room

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

Inside the derelict pump room at Waterfall Sanatorium, rusted machinery and decaying pipes remain. A sign on the wall reads Pump Room, and overgrown foliage presses against the window glass beside a red warning sign.

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In situ

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

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

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

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Pump Room
Series: Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue: WSA-036
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

02 LOCATION

Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The pump room at Waterfall Sanatorium. Rusted machinery and decaying pipes remain inside, and a sign on the wall reads Pump Room. Piping runs across the back wall, the joints rusted through. The walls are rendered concrete, painted cream, with the paint flaking in patches where damp has worked through. Overgrown foliage presses against the window glass beside a red warning sign.

The Hospital for Consumptives at Waterfall opened in April 1909 as the principal NSW facility for the treatment of advanced tuberculosis. The site sat at around 305 metres elevation, 42 kilometres south of Sydney. At peak in 1919 it held 788 patients, the largest sanatorium in the state. The sanatorium closed in 1958 once antibiotic treatment and thoracic surgery made isolation unnecessary; the site converted to Garrawarra Hospital and then to the Garrawarra Centre for the Aged. Brett photographed the pump room in June 2018.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A dimly lit pump room.

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

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