Comfort Inn Towradgi Beach

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1.3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A functional space inside the Comfort Inn Towradgi Beach awaits. The decor suggests a temporary pause, reflecting the ubiquitous Australian motel experience. Its purpose is fleeting comfort.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Comfort Inn Towradgi Beach
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-053
Process: Giclée
Captured: 6 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1.3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 24 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: 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

New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The Comfort Inn Towradgi Beach sits on a beachside street in Towradgi on the Illawarra coast, the building two-storey brick with the room doors opening onto continuous balcony walkways at each floor. The Comfort Inn brand sign on a pole at the kerb carries the chain's standard yellow-and-red colour scheme, with the local name underneath the brand mark. The brick is pale, painted with a coastal trim along the balustrade. The carpark is empty in the late evening. The beach across the road is dark; the property is sited to deliver an upper-floor sea view during daylight. A row of small front gardens carries the standard beachside landscaping.

The Comfort Inn Towradgi Beach was photographed at 23:30 on 6 April 2018, on the south-Wollongong run of Hotel Motel 101. The project covered 101 traditional Australian motor inns across three sweeps out of Sydney in late March and early April 2018: south on the Hume and the Princes Highway corridor, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. The Comfort Inn brand sign sits over a building that meets the project's typology test, the underlying motor-inn form preserved beneath the franchise badging.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two doors sit side by side in a single-storey concrete block building. Rooms 10 and 11. A security light between them throws hard white onto the walkway and casts a long shadow from the steel post. Room 10 has a warm glow behind louvre windows. Room 11 is dark. A no-smoking sign. A drain grate at each threshold. Damp patches on the concrete. Grass creeps to the edge of the path.

Brett Patman

The series

Hotel Motel 101

2015–2020 · 103 photographs

Hotel Motel 101 is a series of one hundred and one motels photographed in 2018 across three runs out of Sydney. North to the Central Coast, west through the Blue Mountains to the central western tablelands, south down the NSW South Coast. The count crept up from a planned seventy toward the round number, plus one for safety.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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