Entertainment Hall
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 14mm · f/9.0 · 1/8 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Sunlight through wire-reinforced windows, long shadows across the wooden floor. The walls carry murals depicting Australian landscapes, painted for the workers who used this hall between shifts. White Bay employed staff continuously from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Entertainment Hall
- Series
- White Bay Power Station
- Catalogue
- WBP-105
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 27 May 2016
- Camera
- NIKON D810
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/9.0
- Shutter
- 1/8 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 14 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia
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About this print
The hall opens wide beneath a pitched timber-truss roof. Corrugated sheeting filters grey daylight between the rafters. Bare fluorescent fittings hang motionless from the beams. Wooden floorboards run the full length of the space, thick with dust and grit. Concrete walls carry dark stains of moisture damage. Timber bench seating lines both sides. At the far end, a small raised stage sits behind a faded red proscenium, a painted landscape mural still visible on the back wall.
Brett Patman
The series
White Bay Power Station
Bricklayers laid 3.7 million bricks at White Bay across three and a quarter years of Phase 1 construction, on Wanngal Country at the western edge of Rozelle. The New South Wales Government Railways ran the build through its own Construction Department. By 3 July 1913, boilers and alternators were running before the buildings that housed them were complete.
Print sizes
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What collectors say
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Harry H.
27 August 2022
Poignant photographs
I have now bought two of Brett's photographs and am looking forward to buying more. He has a great eye as a photographer, but what has especially attracted me to his work is that so much of it features abandoned buildings, including their vacant (and in many cases deteriorating ) interiors. This gives them a melancholy air that is both unusual and powerful. At the same time, while many of them are in somber tones. as one would expect from abandoned construction, some of them also have splashes of color — a view of green trees through a large [picture window, or a red carpet on an abandoned stage (see the photo above) — or a painted wall that while fading is has still retained some of its color — that provide a contrast with the otherwise rather dismal surroundings. I ordered framed prints, and am very happy with those results as well. Brett was extremely helpful in finalizing the details of my order, and was a pleasure to work with.
