Twin Towers Inn

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

Sunlight illuminates the abandoned Twin Towers Inn. Its weathered façade and broken windows reveal the slow decay within this once-bustling roadside motel.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Twin Towers Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-039
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 Twin Towers Inn carries its name on a pole sign at the kerb above a small graphic of two stylised towers. The building behind the sign is two-storey, brick, with the upper room doors opening onto a continuous balcony walkway and the ground-floor rooms facing the carpark directly. The brick is dark, the trim a contrasting cream. A pair of taller decorative columns at the front of the property gives the building its twin-tower motif. The carpark is empty in the early evening. A row of metal-framed chairs sits along the upper walkway. The road in front of the property is wide and quiet.

The Twin Towers Inn was photographed at 21:07 on 4 April 2018, at the start of the north-run portion of Hotel Motel 101's longest shoot night. 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 to the Central Coast, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise. The twin-towers naming is a postwar Australian motel flourish, the kind of architectural-gesture branding that gave each property a distinctive sign at the highway-side.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Three storeys of open-air corridor stack in tight geometry. Steel balustrades cut diagonal lines across the frame, staircase over staircase, black iron against warm yellow render. Numbered doors repeat at even intervals. Wall-mounted lights throw a sodium glow across concrete walkways. A single potted plant sits on the upper landing. Lens flare bleeds green and blue near the base of the stairs. No one is visible.

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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