Deserted

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 200mm · f/8.0 · 1/200 · ISO 180
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A corrugated iron shack sits low against the sand dunes at Tin City. Bleached walls, a flat rusted roof, a collapsed timber verandah. Dune grass holds the sand in place. Pale sky above.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Deserted
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-007
Process: Giclée
Captured: 31 January 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 70.0-200.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/200 s
ISO: 180
Focal length: 200 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 290 × 200 mm
Location: Lake Macquarie, 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

Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

A Tin City shack stands alone on the dune ridge with the door shut and no sign of recent occupation. The walls are corrugated iron in patched panels, the roof a single pitched sheet weighed down at the corners against the wind. Sand has built up against the eastern wall in a long sloping drift, taking the lower courses of cladding with it. The window facing the beach is shuttered. The wider settlement is out of frame; in this view the shack reads as a single point against the larger dune field, with no road, no neighbour, no power line in sight. The afternoon light is hard from the west.

Tin City sits on the Stockton Bight sand dunes in Port Stephens, on Worimi country, around 11 km south-west of Anna Bay. The settlement is reached by NPWS-licensed 4WD across the dunes or on foot. Eleven shacks remain, down from a Depression-era peak of around 36 to 38. The shacks are not abandoned: each one is privately held under a licence administered by the Worimi Conservation Lands Board of Management, and most see regular use through the year. What a photograph from a quiet day captures is the gap between visits, when the wind, the sand, and the building are the only things in motion.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A portrait image of shack Eleven.

Brett Patman

The series

Tin City

2018 · 37 photographs

Two tin sheds were put up on the Stockton Bight dunes in the late nineteenth century to hold provisions for sailors shipwrecked on the beach. During the Great Depression a group of squatters built a series of shacks around them. The settlement that grew became Tin City, on Worimi country, in the largest mobile coastal sand mass in the Southern Hemisphere.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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