Boat Harbour Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Boat Harbour Motel, a relic of Australia's coastal highways, stands silent. Its faded signage and empty rooms reflect years of disuse. Paint peels from the walls, revealing the quiet decline of this once-active stop.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Boat Harbour Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-059
Process: Giclée
Captured: 7 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 6s 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 Boat Harbour Motel sits on a street in the Illawarra coastal corridor, the building two-storey brick with the room doors opening onto continuous balcony walkways at each floor. The brick is pale, the trim a coastal blue along the eaves and the balustrade. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name on a backlit panel with a small nautical graphic beside the lettering. The carpark is empty in the small hours, just after midnight. A row of small front gardens between the carpark and the road carries the standard beachside landscaping. The Pacific is a short walk from the property.

The Boat Harbour Motel was photographed at 00:03 on 7 April 2018, on the south Illawarra 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 and the Princes Highway corridor to the start of the South Coast, north on the Pacific to the Central Coast, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Boat-and-harbour naming was standard along the Illawarra coastal strip, with the brand reaching for the postwar coastal-holiday idiom.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Three storeys of white-painted brick rise flat against the night sky. Each balcony is identical. Blue-trimmed fascia. Steel railings. White plastic chairs arranged in pairs, empty. Pale green curtains hang floor to ceiling behind sliding glass doors, most drawn shut. A thin strip of warm light leaks from one room on the middle level. The ground floor glows brighter, its interior partially visible through mesh security screens. No people. No movement. Just the hum of fluorescent spill on brick.

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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