Richmond Inn

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 3s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Inside the Richmond Inn, a worn armchair sits beneath a peeling wall. Light filters through grimy windows, illuminating dust motes in the still air of this abandoned roadside establishment.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Richmond Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-081
Process: Giclée
Captured: 9 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 3s 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 Richmond Inn sits in Richmond on the Hawkesbury River, the building single-storey brick with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is pale, the trim a brown along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit cream panel. The carpark is empty in the late evening. A row of mature trees between the carpark and the road provides daytime shade; the cool-climate landscaping marks the Hawkesbury Valley out from the coastal motel strip. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt.

The Richmond Inn was photographed at 22:27 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. Richmond is one of the oldest European-settled towns in Australia, one of Governor Macquarie's 1810 Hawkesbury "Five Towns"; the local heritage carries directly into the motor inn's quiet country-town branding.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A single floodlight on a timber power pole throws hard white light across the car park. Brown brick walls. A red panelled door. Diamond-lattice windows glow warm behind the verandah. Wicker chairs and aluminium tables sit on grey tiles under a corrugated steel awning. The hedgerow has grown thick against the raised brick planter. The bitumen is wet and empty.

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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