Black Gold Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 25s · ISO 400
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Black Gold Motel stands abandoned, its faded sign hinting at past travellers. Peeling paint and broken windows reveal years of neglect, a silent monument to forgotten journeys.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Black Gold Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-085
Process: Giclée
Captured: 10 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 25s s
ISO: 400
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 Black Gold Motel takes its name from coal, the black gold of the Lithgow Valley's coal-mining heritage. The building is single-storey, brick, with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is dark, painted with a gold trim along the fascia and the doorframes that picks up the coal-and-gold theme of the property name. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit panel; a small coal-trolley silhouette sits beside the lettering. The carpark is empty in the small hours. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt.

The Black Gold Motel was photographed at 00:43 on 10 April 2018, on the western Lithgow 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. The Lithgow Valley was one of NSW's earliest large-scale coal-mining regions, with the Black Gold name connecting the motel to the industry that built the town it serves.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two besser block rooms face an empty car park. Yellow line markings divide bays where no vehicles sit. A corrugated iron awning runs the full width of the facade, supported by slim steel posts. Porch lights throw warm colour across the blockwork and timber doors. Wicker chairs and small tables sit outside each room. Above the roofline, power lines cut across a deep night sky. Stars are visible.

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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