Commercial Hotel Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/4.0 · 15s · ISO 250
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Commercial Hotel Motel’s weathered sign hangs askew, its lettering faded. Peeling paint and broken windows mark the building’s slow decline. Dust collects on the verandah, reflecting years of disuse.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Commercial Hotel Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-089
Process: Giclée
Captured: 10 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter: 15s s
ISO: 250
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 Commercial Hotel Motel sits on a country-town main street, the building two-storey brick with the pub at the ground floor and motel accommodation in the upper rooms behind a continuous balcony walkway. The pub is the older of the two halves; the motel wing was added in the postwar period as the property extended into the drive-by trade. 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 bar window at the ground floor is dark; the property has wound down for the night. A single security light at the staircase end throws warm cones across the asphalt.

The Commercial Hotel Motel was photographed at 00:06 on 10 April 2018, on the western run of Hotel Motel 101, the second night the western corridor was covered, this time pushing through to the Central Western Tablelands. 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. Country-town pubs named "Commercial Hotel" sit across NSW and Victoria as the standard nineteenth-century commercial-travellers' hotel that later picked up motel accommodation.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of cream brick face an empty car park. Rooms 3, 4, and 5 line the ground floor. Room 13 sits above. Grey doors, drawn curtains, round porthole windows. Red fire hose reels are mounted between each pair of rooms. Metal café chairs and a small table sit on the concrete below, pushed against the wall. No one is seated. A deep blue night sky presses down over the flat roofline. Cool artificial light spills from a couple of open doorways, casting pale blue rectangles onto the walkway.

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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