The Way Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor.
The Way Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor.

The Way Out

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
14mm · f/8.0 · 1/50 · ISO 100
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A derelict doorway at Waterfall Sanatorium frames an overgrown path. Sunlight pushes through dense foliage, illuminating peeling paint and crumbling plaster. This passage once offered patients a fleeting view of the world beyond.

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The Way Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor.The Way Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor.The Way Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor.The Way Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor.The Way Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
The Way Out
Series
Waterfall Sanatorium
Catalogue
WSA-050
Process
Giclée
Captured
24 June 2018
Camera
NIKON D850
Lens
14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/8.0
Shutter
1/50 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
National Trust of Australia (NSW), 2016 Heritage Award, Multimedia
03 THE STORY

About this print

A derelict doorway at Waterfall Sanatorium frames a path of overgrowth beyond the building. Sunlight pushes through the dense foliage outside the doorway, illuminating the peeling paint on the doorframe and the crumbling plaster of the wall around it. The door itself has been removed; the empty frame admits the view beyond.

Waterfall opened on 14 April 1909 as the Hospital for Consumptives. The site sits on bush land approximately 26 miles south of Sydney at around 1,000 feet elevation, near the Royal National Park corridor. The sanatorium was the largest TB facility in NSW by 1919 and closed in 1958 when antibiotic therapy made the isolation model unnecessary. The bush has worked across the older parts of the site in the decades since.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Sunlight falls in pale strips across a bare concrete floor. The room is large and high-ceilinged, its cream-coloured walls covered in layers of spray paint. Tags in red, black, and yellow crowd every surface. A single glass door sits at centre, flanked by timber-boarded windows. Blue-green paint remains on the door frame and skirting. A broken chair lies toppled against the left wall. Dust and grit coat everything.

Brett Patman

Waterfall Sanatorium

The series

Waterfall Sanatorium

2016–2018 · 54 photographs

Waterfall Sanatorium opened on 14 April 1909, twenty-six miles south of Sydney at an elevation chosen for what the era's medical orthodoxy called "high and rarefied atmosphere". By 1919 it held seven hundred and eighty-eight patients and was the largest sanatorium in New South Wales. It closed as a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1958.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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07 MORE FROM WATERFALL SANATORIUM

53 other prints in this series

All prints
Bathrooms at Waterfall Sanatorium, a brown vinyl armchair sits centre-frame on a floor thick with plaster dust and debris.
Bathrooms $100.00
Looking Out at Waterfall Sanatorium, broken windows viewing out towards the overgrown grounds of Waterfall Sanatorium.
Looking Out $100.00
Hanging Garden at Waterfall Sanatorium, a fern growing in brickwork between two bathroom doors.
Hanging Garden $100.00
Washroom at Waterfall Sanatorium, a narrow brick corridor opens toward a bank of timber-framed windows.
Washroom $100.00
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