Central Coast Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 30s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside a derelict Central Coast motel. Faded floral wallpaper peels from the walls. A broken bed frame rests on the stained carpet. Dust covers every surface. The room stands silent, forgotten by time.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Central Coast Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-043
Process: Giclée
Captured: 5 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 30s 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 Central Coast Motel sits on a Central Coast street in a single-storey brick building, the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit cream panel. The brick is pale, painted in a brown trim along the fascia. Each room door is set into the wall at the standard motor-inn spacing, with the numbers in stencilled gold on small enamel plaques. The carpark is empty in the small hours. A single security light at the office end throws hard white cones across the asphalt. The road in front of the property is dark.

The Central Coast Motel was photographed at 00:16 on 5 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. The Central Coast region carried a dense cluster of traditional motor inns through the postwar decades, serving the Sydney-to-Newcastle trade and the Pacific Highway through traffic before the freeway took most of it.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Brown brick and a terracotta tile roof. Rooms 5, 6 and 7 sit in a low single-storey row, each door separated by identical timber chairs and white planter pots. Net curtains hang behind aluminium-framed windows. The bitumen car park is wet and empty, parking lines fading. Deep blue night sky presses down above a treeline of eucalypts. Coach lanterns throw hard light across the brickwork. 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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