Resteasy Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 5s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Resteasy Motel reception area stands in disuse. Dust layers cover the counter and forgotten guest registers. A faded sign hangs crooked, reflecting years of abandonment. Silence fills the empty space, a relic of past travellers.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Resteasy Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-037
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 5s 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 Resteasy Motel carries its name on a sign at the kerb in a contracted no-spaces typeface from the late 1970s or 1980s, the lettering 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 cream, the trim a darker brown along the fascia and the doorframes. The carpark is empty. A security light at one end of the building throws hard white cones across the asphalt. The road in front of the property is dark, with the next streetlight some distance off.

The Resteasy Motel was photographed at 00:13 on 4 April 2018, on 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. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Names like Resteasy compress the property's whole pitch into a single brand: the trade was tired highway drivers wanting a bed, and the name said exactly what was on offer.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of brown brick facade, dead straight, shot front-on at night. White concrete balusters line each balcony in identical rows. Window-mounted air conditioning units jut from the brickwork beside every room. Curtains are drawn. Downlights cast hard circles on the upper walls. A sign at ground level reads "Garrison Room." The car park is empty. Concrete, dry leaves, a single shrub.

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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