Forresters Beach Resort

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 25s · ISO 320
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside the derelict Forresters Beach Resort, a long corridor recedes into shadow. Peeling paint flakes from the walls. Debris covers the floor, marking the decay of this once-vibrant coastal hotel.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Forresters Beach Resort
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-097
Process: Giclée
Captured: 11 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 25s s
ISO: 320
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 Forresters Beach Resort sits on a street at Forresters Beach on the Central Coast, 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 teal along the eaves and the balustrade. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit panel. The carpark is empty in the late evening. A row of decorative palms in planters at the office end carries the standard postwar tropical landscaping. The Forresters Beach foreshore sits across the road from the property; in daylight the upper-floor rooms carry an ocean view.

The Forresters Beach Resort was photographed at 23:12 on 11 April 2018, on the second northern 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. Forresters Beach is one of the smaller Central Coast beachside strips between Terrigal and The Entrance, the kind of property the postwar coastal-holiday trade was built to serve.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Brown brick. Tiled roof. Three white doors set in a low single-storey block, each facing an empty car park. A single bulb burns hard against the brickwork, throwing warm light across the facade. White line markings divide the asphalt into bays. No cars. Palm trees rise behind the roofline into a deep night sky scattered with stars. A TV antenna leans slightly above the ridge.

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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