Yetholme Motor Inn

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

Inside the Yetholme Motor Inn, the grey light filters through dusty windows. A forgotten bedframe sits in a corner, its mattress long gone. This abandoned roadside inn reflects years of quiet decay.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Yetholme Motor Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-094
Process: Giclée
Captured: 10 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 Yetholme Motor Inn sits in Yetholme on the Great Western Highway between Lithgow and Bathurst, the building single-storey brick with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is pale, the trim a brown along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit cream panel. The carpark is empty in the small hours. The Central Western Tablelands climate sits at altitude here; the landscaping along the front of the property is the cool-climate kind, distinct from the coastal motel strips.

The Yetholme Motor Inn was photographed at 01:11 on 10 April 2018, on the western run of Hotel Motel 101 pushing west across the tablelands. 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, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western to the Central Western Tablelands. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Yetholme is a small Central Western Tablelands village on the highway between Lithgow and Bathurst; the motel served the through traffic on the Great Western corridor before the freeway took most of it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A single-storey motel stretches low across the frame under a black sky. Fluorescent light spills from beneath a corrugated iron awning onto cream-coloured walls and closed white doors. Terracotta pots sit evenly spaced along the concrete walkway. A metal bench and a wheelie bin stand between rooms. The car park is empty. A red LED sign reads "FROM $79." Power lines cut across the darkness above the roofline.

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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