Squares In Squares

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 0.3s · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight casts strong shadows through a gridded window inside Waterfall Sanatorium. Faded paint peels from the walls, revealing layers of time within this former tuberculosis hospital.

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Squares In Squares at Waterfall Sanatorium, timber posts frame a sequence of open rooms, each threshold leading deeper.Squares In Squares at Waterfall Sanatorium, timber posts frame a sequence of open rooms, each threshold leading deeper.Squares In Squares at Waterfall Sanatorium, timber posts frame a sequence of open rooms, each threshold leading deeper.Squares In Squares at Waterfall Sanatorium, timber posts frame a sequence of open rooms, each threshold leading deeper.Squares In Squares at Waterfall Sanatorium, timber posts frame a sequence of open rooms, each threshold leading deeper.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Squares In Squares
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-042
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
0.3s 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

Sunlight casts shadows through a gridded window inside Waterfall Sanatorium. The window is a steel-framed industrial sash, the panes arranged in a square grid across the opening. The shadow of the grid falls across the wall and the floor opposite. The wall is plastered, the paint peeling back to bare plaster in patches across the surface.

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. It closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy made the isolation model unnecessary. The site continues in use as the Garrawarra Centre for the Aged; the older sanatorium buildings have stood largely disused since the 1958 closure.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Timber posts frame a sequence of open rooms, each threshold leading deeper into the building. A ceiling fan hangs motionless. Transom windows and casement sashes let grey-green light fall across the concrete floor, picking up scuff marks and grit. Near the centre, a rectangular hole has been cut through the floor. Cables spill from it. Graffiti marks the far wall in yellow and black.

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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