Sutherland Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 8s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Sutherland Motel's roadside sign, a beacon of forgotten journeys, stands weathered and faded. Its peeling paint and discoloured letters mark the slow decline of a once vibrant stop.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Sutherland Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-056
Process: Giclée
Captured: 6 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 8s 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 Sutherland Motel sits on a street in the Sutherland Shire south of Sydney, a single-storey brick building with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is dark, painted with a cream trim along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a 1970s sans-serif on a backlit panel. The carpark is empty in the early evening. A row of metal-framed chairs sits along the walkway outside the rooms. The Sutherland Shire's suburban edge sits beyond the property; the road in front is quiet at this hour.

The Sutherland Motel was photographed at 21:48 on 6 April 2018, on the south-Wollongong 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 through the Hume corridor and the Princes Highway to the start of the South Coast, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. Sutherland sits inside Sydney's southern suburban edge, the start of the corridor that takes the project into the Illawarra and on to the South Coast.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of brown brick face an empty courtyard. A concrete staircase cuts diagonally across the facade, its timber balustrade painted pale green. Curtains hang closed behind every window. A bollard light throws a yellow cone across the brick path and a small patch of lawn. No-smoking sign near the base of the stairs. No cars. No people. Just the low hum of fluorescent tubes.

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

Print sizes

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