Nine

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/4.0 · 1/250 · ISO 64
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Weathered corrugated iron forms the walls of a dwelling in Tin City. This remote collection of shacks on Stockton Bight, New South Wales, was built by fishermen and surfers from salvaged materials.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Nine
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-028
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 February 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter: 1/250 s
ISO: 64
Focal length: 24 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

Shack number Nine at Tin City sits toward the northern end of the settlement, its walls clad in white-painted corrugated iron with the numeral 9 marked in black on the front. The shack is single-storey, single-pitched, with a small awning over the door and a covered area extending off one side. The white paint has yellowed in places and worn back to bare metal at the corners. A rainwater tank sits on a low stand at the rear. The shack is closer to the dune line than to the beach; the sand behind comes up almost to the back wall.

The numbering of the Tin City shacks runs in approximate order along the ridge. The numbers and the personal nicknames sit side by side: residents know each shack by both. Nine is one of the surviving 11. The settlement reached its highest count of around 36 to 38 structures during the Great Depression of the 1930s; the Army demolition during World War II, the sand burial that followed, and the gradual loss of structures since brought it down to the current count. Tin City is on Worimi country at the Stockton Bight in Port Stephens, and the surviving shacks are administered under the Worimi Conservation Lands Plan of Management 2015.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Corrugated iron and shade cloth hold together a low sprawl of shack against the dunes. Green tarpaulin covers one section. A satellite dish angles upward beside a thin metal pole. Fishing floats hang in a line from the verandah beam. Sand creeps across the front yard, burying the base of the fence line. Low scrub pushes through in patches. The sky is heavy and grey.

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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