Jetty Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/7.1 · 25s · ISO 250
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Jetty Motel’s faded sign and peeling paint reveal its slow surrender to time. Empty rooms now echo forgotten laughter from past coastal getaways.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Jetty Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-046
Process: Giclée
Captured: 5 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/7.1
Shutter: 25s 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

A single-storey motel block stretches across the frame at the Jetty Motel under a deep night sky. Blue steel fascia runs the length of the roofline. Below it, clerestory windows glow amber where the room lights are still on. Pale brick columns divide each room. Curtains hang limp behind sliding glass doors, some drawn, some half-open. A metal railing buckles where it has been bent forward from its posts. Parking bays sit empty on cracked tile paving. There are no figures and no vehicles. The amber light from the clerestory is doing most of the work in the frame.

The Jetty is one of 101 traditional Australian motor inns photographed for Hotel Motel 101 across 2018. The series ran in three sweeps out of Sydney: north along the Central Coast, west through the Blue Mountains, south down the start of the South Coast. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. The shoot ran across roughly three to four weeks, late at night and into the small hours, on consecutive or alternate nights. The first commercial sale of work from the series came at the Finders Keepers market in Sydney in May 2018, soon after most of the photography was complete.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A single-storey motel block stretches across the frame under a deep night sky. Blue steel fascia runs the length of the roofline. Below it, clerestory windows glow amber. Pale brick columns divide each room. Curtains hang limp behind sliding glass doors, some drawn, some half-open. A metal railing buckles where it has been bent forward from its posts. Parking bays sit empty on cracked tile paving. Faded room numbers mark each door.

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

Print sizes

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