Storage Shelves

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 0.6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Empty metal shelves stand within a former storage room at Waterfall Sanatorium. Rust blooms on the grey surfaces, where supplies for tuberculosis patients were once kept.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Storage Shelves
Series: Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue: WSA-043
Process: Giclée
Captured: 24 June 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 0.6s 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

03 THE STORY

About this print

Empty metal shelves stand within a former storage room at Waterfall Sanatorium. The shelving is grey-painted steel, the surfaces rust-bloomed across patches. The shelves are arranged in rows along the room, the inventory cleared from the racks at some point in the closure of the building. The floor between the shelves is concrete, dust-covered.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives, NSW. The hospital treated advanced and chronic tuberculosis and held 788 patients by 1919, the largest TB facility in NSW. It closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy made the isolation model unnecessary. Working stocks for the sanatorium were held in storage rooms across the site; the inventories were cleared at closure.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A timber shelving unit covers the back wall, its grid of open compartments stripped bare. Paint has flaked from every surface. A green door leans ajar at the left edge, its handle worn smooth, colour fading to grey at the edges. Sandstone block walls show damp staining low to the ground. The concrete floor is dark, gritty, cold. Pegboard panels line the right wall. A coffered concrete ceiling holds the room in low, flat light.

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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