Gosford Palms Motor Inn

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 10s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Two storeys of brick and white-painted doors facing an empty car park, photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Rooms 11, 12, 16 and 17 visible in the frame. Fluorescent light across the facade, a timber bench between the ground-floor doors, no guests.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Gosford Palms Motor Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-098
Process: Giclée
Captured: 11 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 10s 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 Gosford Palms Motor Inn sits on a Gosford street with the building two-storey brick, 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 cursive script on a backlit panel, with a small palm-tree graphic beside the lettering. A row of decorative palms along the front of the carpark gives the property its name; the trees are tall and mature. The carpark is empty in the early evening. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt.

The Gosford Palms Motor Inn was photographed at 21:34 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. Gosford is the Central Coast's regional centre and carried several traditional motor inns through the postwar decades, serving the Sydney-to-Newcastle through-trade.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of brown brick and white panel doors face an empty car park. Rooms 11 and 12 at ground level. Rooms 16 and 17 above, reached by a steel-railed walkway. A single floodlight throws hard white light across the facade, catching the mortar lines and turning curtained windows into flat grey rectangles. A weathered timber bench sits between the lower doors. The bitumen is clean. No cars. No movement.

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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