Side Hall

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/10 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A narrow corridor runs the length of a ward building at Waterfall Sanatorium. Brick on one side, steel-framed glazing on the other. The ceiling plaster has collapsed. Water pools on the concrete floor.

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Side Hall at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow enclosed corridor runs between a brick wall and a bank of steel-framed windows.Side Hall at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow enclosed corridor runs between a brick wall and a bank of steel-framed windows.Side Hall at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow enclosed corridor runs between a brick wall and a bank of steel-framed windows.Side Hall at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow enclosed corridor runs between a brick wall and a bank of steel-framed windows.Side Hall at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow enclosed corridor runs between a brick wall and a bank of steel-framed windows.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Side Hall
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-040
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/10 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

A narrow corridor runs the length of a ward building at Waterfall Sanatorium. Brick lines one side of the corridor; steel-framed glazing lines the other. The ceiling plaster has collapsed along the run, the material fallen across the floor below. Water pools on the concrete floor where the broken ceiling has admitted the rain. The light from the glazed wall falls across the puddles and the debris.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW. The hospital was the principal NSW state-run sanatorium for tuberculosis treatment, with 370 beds by 1914 and 788 patients by 1919. It closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy made the isolation model unnecessary. The older ward buildings have stood largely disused since; the ceiling structures have progressively given way.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A narrow enclosed corridor runs between a brick wall and a bank of steel-framed windows. Ceiling panels sag and tear away, exposing pipes and conduit above. Standing water pools across the concrete floor, dark with sediment and algae. Green electrical cable lies tangled in the wet. Sunlight filters through the glass, catching the slick surface. A red brick chimney stack is visible outside, rising above the treeline.

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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