Blackheath Motor Inn

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/2.8 · 25s · ISO 1000
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Blackheath Motor Inn's faded sign hangs above a silent, overgrown entrance. Empty car parks and derelict rooms tell a story of abandonment. Decay slowly reclaims this forgotten Blue Mountains structure.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Blackheath Motor Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-086
Process: Giclée
Captured: 10 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 25s s
ISO: 1000
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 Blackheath Motor Inn sits in Blackheath on the Great Western Highway in the upper Blue Mountains, the building single-storey brick with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is dark, the trim a cream along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit panel. The carpark is empty in the small hours. The Blue Mountains altitude sits across the property; the cool-climate landscaping along the front carries the standard upper-mountain plantings. The road in front of the property is dark.

The Blackheath Motor Inn was photographed at 02:30 on 10 April 2018, on the western Blue Mountains 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 through the Blue Mountains. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Blackheath sits at the highest point of the Great Western Highway, the second-largest of the upper-mountain towns after Katoomba and one of the standard stops on the older Sydney-to-Bathurst alignment.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Three identical units sit in a row along a gravel forecourt. Cream blockwork walls. Dark timber doors. Green corrugated roofing weathered to a dull grey-green. Small fern baskets hang between each doorway. Dappled afternoon light falls through conifers and cypresses that crowd the slope behind the building. A single flue pipe rises from the roofline. The ground is dry, compacted gravel. No cars. No guests.

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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