Echo Point Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Dust settles across a forgotten room within the Echo Point Motel, Blue Mountains. Once a vibrant tourist destination, silence now fills the decaying space, a stark relic of past holidays.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Echo Point Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-032
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 8s 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 Echo Point Motel sits on a street off the main highway in Katoomba, the building positioned to give the upper rooms a view toward the Three Sisters formation a short walk away. The single-storey brick building runs along the back of the lot with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is dark, the trim cream. A pole sign at the kerb carries the name in a 1970s sans-serif on a backlit panel. The carpark is empty at this hour. The mountain air is cool and still. A row of small gardens between the carpark and the road carries the standard mountain-bush plantings: native shrubs, no exotics.

The Echo Point Motel was photographed at 00:56 on 4 April 2018, on the western 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 Highway, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western Highway through the Blue Mountains. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Echo Point is Katoomba's main tourist lookout, with the Three Sisters formation visible from the platform; the motel's name traded on that proximity from its mid-century opening onwards.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Rooms 109 and 110 sit side by side under flat fluorescent light. Painted besser block walls, pale yellow. Dark teal doors with panelled glass inserts. A cast iron bistro setting occupies the narrow concrete strip between them. No one sits there. A terracotta pot holds an oleander that leans slightly right. The bitumen carpark is close enough to touch the front step. Above the roofline, deep blue night sky.

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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