Alexander The Great Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Alexander The Great Motel stands derelict, its roadside sign faded and peeling. Broken windows and overgrown weeds mark years of abandonment. The empty premises remain.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Alexander The Great Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-077
Process: Giclée
Captured: 9 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 5s 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 Alexander the Great Motel carries its name in a serif face on a pole sign at the kerb, the lettering picked out in white against a backlit panel decorated with a small classical-helmet silhouette beside the text. The building behind the sign is single-storey, brick, with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is pale, the trim a darker brown along the fascia. The carpark is empty in the early evening. A pair of decorative columns at the office end flanks the reception entry; the columns are concrete with cast-classical detail, picking up the property's aspirational naming. The road in front of the property is wide.

The Alexander the Great Motel was photographed at 21:48 on 9 April 2018, on the western Hawkesbury 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, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Classical-history naming sat inside the broader Australian motel habit of reaching for grand-historical reference to lend the property a sense of occasion at the highway-side.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two brown doors, numbered 9 and 10, sit side by side in a recess of blonde brick. A single wall sconce between them throws warm light upward, casting sharp geometric shadows across the brickwork and decorative iron lacework above. The pavers underfoot are dry. A clipped box hedge borders the walkway. Wrought iron balustrades line the upper storey. Everything is tidy, maintained, still.

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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