Ascot Motor Inn

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Faded signage and empty windows define the Ascot Motor Inn. This derelict structure, a relic of forgotten journeys, slowly succumbs to nature's reclamation.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Ascot Motor Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-024
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 8s 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 Ascot Motor Inn carries its name on a pole sign at the kerb in a serif face picked out in white against a backlit panel. 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, painted along the eaves in a cream trim. A small horse-and-jockey silhouette beside the property name on the sign signals the Ascot reference: the Royal Ascot racecourse in England, by way of every Australian motel that wanted to reach for a touch of English country aspiration. The carpark is empty in the early evening. A row of metal-framed chairs sits along the walkway.

The Ascot Motor Inn was photographed at 21:52 on 4 April 2018, on the north 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 to the Central Coast, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Royal-reference names like Ascot, Windsor, Richmond, and Buckingham were standard postwar Australian motel naming, reaching for English country glamour at the highway-side.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of rendered blockwork and green-painted timber doors. Rooms 53 and 62 sit at ground level, curtains drawn behind aluminium-framed windows. Above, rooms 60 and 61 face a narrow walkway behind black steel balustrades. A metal staircase angles up the right side. Wall-mounted lights throw a warm yellow wash across the pale render. Red fire extinguisher boxes hang beside each door. The asphalt carpark below is stencilled NO PARKING in faded paint. A clipped hedge presses against the stairwell.

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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