The Shed

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

A rusted corrugated iron shed stands at Waterfall Sanatorium. This structure once served the tuberculosis hospital, which operated from 1909 until 1958, providing essential services.

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The Shed at Waterfall Sanatorium, a cream brick room with a corrugated iron ceiling.The Shed at Waterfall Sanatorium, a cream brick room with a corrugated iron ceiling.The Shed at Waterfall Sanatorium, a cream brick room with a corrugated iron ceiling.The Shed at Waterfall Sanatorium, a cream brick room with a corrugated iron ceiling.The Shed at Waterfall Sanatorium, a cream brick room with a corrugated iron ceiling.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
The Shed
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-048
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

A rusted corrugated iron shed stands at Waterfall Sanatorium. The cladding is the original sheet steel, weathered to bare metal across the panels and rust-bloomed at the seams and fixings. The frame underneath is timber, partly visible where the cladding has lifted. The shed sits on a concrete pad among the trees of the wider site.

Waterfall Sanatorium served as a tuberculosis hospital from 14 April 1909 until 1958, the principal NSW state-run treatment centre for advanced and chronic TB. The hospital was renamed Waterfall Sanatorium around 1912 and was the largest TB facility in NSW by 1919. The site continued as Garrawarra Hospital and now operates as the Garrawarra Centre for the Aged; the older sanatorium structures sit on the wider grounds.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A cream brick room with a corrugated iron ceiling. An old barber-style chair sits on a hydraulic pedestal near the left wall, its vinyl cracked and grey with dust. Brown beer bottles line a timber shelf behind it. Peeling linoleum curls away from bare floorboards. Graffiti covers the far wall in thick green and blue paint. Wire mesh guards both windows. A plastic chair and a small table sit beneath them, dwarfed by the debris scattered across the floor.

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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