Penrith Valley Inn

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 38mm · f/8.0 · 2.5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside the Penrith Valley Inn, photographed for Hotel Motel 101. Peeling paint and settled dust on every surface. The series, titled as a project conceit, covers 101 traditional NSW roadside motor inns photographed in 2018 across three runs from Sydney.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Penrith Valley Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-017
Process: Giclée
Captured: 3 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 2.5s s
ISO: 100
Focal length: 38 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 Penrith Valley Inn occupies a wide forecourt off the Great Western Highway, a single-storey brick building running along the back of the lot with the room doors facing forward. The brick is dark, painted along the eaves in a cream trim. A pole sign at the kerb carries the name on a backlit panel; the lettering is still glowing in the late evening. The carpark is empty at this hour. A row of metal-framed chairs sits along the walkway outside the rooms. The Great Western corridor beyond the property runs quiet at this hour, the through traffic gone with the day.

The Penrith Valley Inn was photographed at 23:04 on 3 April 2018, at the start of the western 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 Highway, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western Highway through the Blue Mountains to the Central Western Tablelands. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Penrith sits at the foot of the western corridor's climb into the mountains, the last of the Sydney basin before the road starts gaining altitude.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of cream and brown brick rise above an empty car park. Fluorescent wall lights burn hard against the lower alcoves, throwing flat white glare across paired room doors. A "No Parking" sign sits centred between them. The bitumen is scattered with leaf litter. Yellow wheel stops mark bays with no cars in them. Upstairs, curtains hang at different lengths behind louvre windows. A green exit sign glows above the stairwell.

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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