New Inn Motel

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

Weathered paint peels from the New Inn Motel's walls. Its vacant rooms and overgrown grounds speak of a forgotten era. This once-welcoming roadside stop now silently decays, a relic of journeys past.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: New Inn Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-079
Process: Giclée
Captured: 9 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 New Inn Motel carries its name on a pole sign at the kerb in a serif face picked out in white against a backlit panel. The building behind the sign is single-storey, brick, with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is dark, the trim a cream along the fascia and the doorframes. The "New" in the property name is generations old at this point; the motel sits inside the standard postwar Australian motor-inn typology and shows none of the contemporary architectural fashion. The carpark is empty in the late evening. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt.

The New Inn Motel was photographed at 22:35 on 9 April 2018, on the western Hawkesbury 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, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. The "New" prefix is the standard postwar Australian motel branding marker for a property pitched at the contemporary trade at its opening, even decades after the actual newness has faded.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of brown brick face an empty car park. Cream doors sit evenly spaced, each flanked by curtained windows. Steel columns support a corrugated iron awning over the ground floor walkway. A single floodlight burns between the upper rooms, throwing hard white light across the brickwork. Terracotta pots with clipped shrubs mark the entrances. A wooden bench sits against the wall. No cars. No guests. Just concrete and stillness.

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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