Westside Motor Inn

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 6s · ISO 100
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

The Westside Motor Inn photographed at night for Hotel Motel 101. Brett Patman's 2018 series covered 101 traditional NSW roadside motor inns across three routes from Sydney, shooting late at night or before dawn to capture them under their own signage without people.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Westside Motor Inn
Series: Hotel Motel 101
Catalogue: HMO-041
Process: Giclée
Captured: 4 April 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 6s 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 Westside Motor Inn sits on the Great Western Highway corridor, the building a single-storey brick strip with the room doors facing the front carpark under a continuous awning. The brick is cream, painted in a brown trim along the fascia. A pole sign at the kerb carries the name in a 1970s sans-serif on a backlit panel. The carpark is empty in the small hours; this is the last shot of the night, at almost 3am. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt. The road in front of the property is dark.

The Westside Motor Inn was photographed at 02:54 on 4 April 2018, on the western run of Hotel Motel 101, the last photograph of the night, after Ashfield Motor Inn at 02:51. 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. The 3am shoot time sits at the centre of the project's defining constraint, the small hours when the property is at its quietest and most photographic.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Two storeys of rendered concrete face the empty car park. Rooms 14 through 16 on the ground floor, 32 through 34 above. Steel balustrade runs the length of the upper walkway. Wall-mounted lights cast a warm yellow wash across pale surfaces. Curtains hang behind every window. One room glows from inside. Small plastic bins sit outside each door. The bitumen is clean. No cars. No people.

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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