Ripples

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/40 · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Water pools across a worn corridor floor at Waterfall Sanatorium, the surface broken by faint ripples. Sunlight cuts through tall windows and throws long parallel shadows. Brick pillars and red-brown window frames line the passage. Waterfall closed as a TB sanatorium in 1958.

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In situ

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

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

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

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Ripples
Series: Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue: WSA-038
Process: Giclée
Captured: 24 June 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/40 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

Water pools across a worn corridor floor at Waterfall Sanatorium, the surface broken by faint ripples. Sunlight cuts through tall windows along the corridor and throws long parallel shadows across the floor. Brick pillars and red-brown window frames line the passage between the glazed panels on one side and the brown brick wall on the other. The corridor extends to the wall at the far end of the building.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW. The hospital was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912 and was the largest TB facility in NSW by 1919, with 788 patients. The sanatorium closed in 1958 and the site converted to Garrawarra Hospital. Water ingress through the deteriorating roof structure pools across the floors of the older corridors during wet periods.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Water pools across a worn corridor floor at Waterfall Sanatorium, the surface broken by faint ripples.

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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