Hospital Ward Size:XL A hand-painted billboard for Akira

A hand-painted billboard for Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Shichinin no Samurai covers most of the upper storey of a white clapboard building on a wet Yubari street

where smallholder graziers and selectors built what they could from split slab and galvanised iron

photographed in 2011

New Cement Silo at Kandos

surfaces stripped back by decades of exposure

Hospital Ward Size:XL A hand-painted billboard for AkiraPeeling paint and faded colour mark an abandoned ward inside the Queen Victoria Sanitorium, where rows of beds once lined the room under open sided pavilion construction designed to flood the space with air. The sanitorium operated on Kings Tableland from 1903 until 1999, first treating male tuberculosis patients, then serving as a geriatric hospital for its final 41 years. Part of the Queen Victoria Sanitorium series.