Town And Country Motel

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 30s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Town And Country Motel sign, weathered and faded, stands against a grey sky. Peeling paint and broken windows reveal its slow decay. This once-bustling roadside stop now sits abandoned.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Town And Country Motel
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-004
Process: Giclée
Captured: 29 March 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 30s 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 Town and Country Motel sits on a wide forecourt off the highway, the sign on a pole at the kerb catching the late-night sodium light. The building is single-storey, brick, painted cream with a brown trim along the fascia. The room doors face the carpark in a straight row under a continuous awning. Each door is numbered in stencilled gold on a small enamel plaque. The carpark is empty. A single security light at the office end throws hard white light across the asphalt. The hedges along the front of the property are dry and dusty. The road beyond the property is dark.

The Town and Country was photographed at 21:25 on 29 March 2018, on the southern 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 from Ashfield down through the Southern Highlands to the start of the South Coast, north up the Pacific to the Central Coast, west via the Great Western Highway through the Blue Mountains. The Town and Country sat near the start of the first southern night. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Brown brick units stretch in a low row beneath concrete tile roofing. Rooms 15 and 16 sit centre frame, their sage green doors lit by a single bulb mounted between them. The light throws hard shadows across the bitumen car park. Sheer curtains glow warm behind large aluminium-framed windows. Two tall palms rise from the garden beds, their fronds blurred against a deep blue dusk sky. No cars. No people. Just the hum of quiet vacancy.

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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