Offices

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 21mm · f/8.0 · 6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Frosted glass and boarded windows in the administration building, light falling across peeling floorboards. These offices managed the administrative operation of a station that ran under the NSW Railway Commissioners from 1917 and the Electricity Commission of NSW from January 1953.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Offices
Series: White Bay Power Station
Catalogue: WBP-054
Process: Giclée
Captured: 13 November 2015
Camera: NIKON D7000
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 6s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 21 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

02 LOCATION

Rozelle, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A corridor of offices in the administration block at White Bay Power Station runs along the upper floor of the sandstone building, with the office doors set into the corridor wall at regular intervals. Each office is fitted out with a single desk, a built-in bookshelf, a wall-mounted clock, and a single window looking out across the plant. The corridor flooring is vinyl tile in a small geometric pattern; the walls are painted plasterboard above a dado of dark-stained timber. The lighting is fluorescent overhead, much of it dead. Small enamel name plates on each office door identify the former occupant by name and role; most are still in place.

The administration block held the office staff of White Bay across the working life of the plant: clerks, engineers, accountants, the station manager and his secretary, the supervisors and the auxiliary trades. The offices ran continuously from 1917 to Christmas Day 1983. After closure the block was wound down. Personal effects were removed; the furniture, the bookshelf contents, and the name plates were largely left in place. The site has been opened occasionally for arts and film since, including the 2024 Biennale of Sydney.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Frosted glass panels line the partition wall, their surface clouded with grime. Light pushes through from an adjacent room, hard and low, catching the concrete floor. A narrow corridor opens between timber-clad walls where paint has cracked and lifted in long vertical strips. Electrical fittings sit dead on the wall above. A rolled section of carpet or linoleum lies in the doorway. The floor is bare, layered with fine dust and debris.

Brett Patman

The series

White Bay Power Station

2015–2018 · 124 photographs

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.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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