Bathroom Wall flock of birds sits in a derelict bathroom

sits in a derelict bathroom of one of the Kirkbride Complex's five female pavilions

Rusting metal lockers line the walls of a worker changing room in the Ogurawa settlement

its derelict machinery standing in rows beneath diffused light

light filtering through the grime to what lies below

Lights at Yarraville

Bathroom Wall flock of birds sits in a derelict bathroomLayers of peeling paint on a stained bathroom wall in Female Ward 9 and 10, a ceramic fixture still clinging to the plaster. The Kirkbride Complex at Callan Park was built from 1880 as Australia's first purpose built hospital for moral therapy, its pavilion wards designed to heal through light and air. Part of the Callan Park series.