Jolly Knight Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 42mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Sunlight illuminates a peeling wall at the Jolly Knight Motel. A single, broken window reflects the sky, revealing the slow decay within its empty rooms.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Jolly Knight Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-003
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 March 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 3s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 42 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

Three doors face the carpark at the Jolly Knight Motel. Rooms 22, 23, 24. A teal fascia runs the length of the building, matched by slim steel columns spaced evenly along the walkway. The timber-grain doors are weathered and blotched. Lace curtains hang behind each window, grey and heavy. A single bulb burns above room 23, throwing hard light across the pebblecrete path. Wet asphalt reflects the light back. There are no cars in the bays in front of the doors. There is no movement at any of the windows.

The Jolly Knight 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. The inclusion criterion was the typology test. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. The format restricted the project to a particular kind of building, the one Australians were most likely to remember from family road trips, and locked it to a particular window of architectural history. The three-door layout, the teal fascia, the slim steel columns: this is what a motor inn was supposed to look like.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Three doors face the car park. Rooms 22, 23, 24. Teal fascia runs the length of the building, matched by slim steel columns spaced evenly along the walkway. The timber-grain doors are weathered and blotched. Lace curtains hang behind each window, grey and heavy. A single bulb burns above room 23, throwing hard light across the pebblecrete path. Wet asphalt reflects it back. 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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