Dandaloo Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Dandaloo Motel sign, weathered and sun-bleached, marks a roadside stop now silent. Its empty rooms and peeling paint speak of countless forgotten travellers and a past era.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Dandaloo Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-074
Process: Giclée
Captured: 8 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 5s 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 Dandaloo Motel takes its name from a NSW pastoral district, the property carrying the country-station idiom into its kerb-side branding. The building is single-storey, brick, with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is pale, the trim a brown along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit cream panel. The carpark is empty in the small hours, close to 2:30am. A row of metal-framed chairs sits along the walkway. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt; the small-hours sodium light is the only illumination on the property.

The Dandaloo Motel was photographed at 02:22 on 8 April 2018, on the Illawarra coast 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 Princes Highway corridor, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Dandaloo and other inland-pastoral names were standard postwar Australian motel branding, drawing on the country's settler-pastoral mythology regardless of the property's actual location.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Cream and brown brick facade, lit by cylindrical wall sconces. Rooms numbered 1, 2, 3. Doors recessed into shallow alcoves. Louvre windows sit dark above fixed panes. The concrete path is painted terracotta red, worn through at the edges. Yellow parking lines on cracked asphalt. A large eucalypt leans over the brown corrugated roof. No cars. No movement. Just the flat hum of fluorescent light against the night.

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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