Recess

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 24mm · f/8.0 · 1/25 · ISO 220
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

A deep recess within a weathered Tin City shack catches the afternoon light. Sunlight illuminates peeling paint on timber and rusted corrugated iron walls. Dust motes dance in the still, forgotten air.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Recess
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-029
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 February 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/25 s
ISO: 220
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

A small recess in the front wall of one of the Tin City shacks shelters the entry door from the wind. The recess is set back roughly half a metre from the main wall line, framed in salvaged timber, with a single step up onto a timber landing. The door itself is painted a faded blue, the paint flaking in long strips along the lower panel. A pair of work boots is set on the landing beside the door. A short curtain hangs over a small window beside the entry. The recess catches afternoon light on the inside of one wall and casts the other side into shadow.

Entry recesses are a practical response to the wind at Tin City. The southerly drives sand against any flat wall, and a door set flush with the cladding would be sand-blasted and weather-damaged within a season. A recessed entry buys the door some shelter and gives the resident a place to put boots and a coat before going inside. Most of the surviving 11 shacks have a recess or a covered porch of some kind for the same reason. The Worimi Conservation Lands Plan of Management 2015 allows the existing structures to be maintained; the rule against new construction or rebuilding after destruction is the boundary the residents work inside.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Sand banks hard against corrugated iron walls, rising halfway up the structure. Rust bleeds through the lower panels in deep orange streaks. A TV antenna juts from the roofline at an angle. Windows still hold glass, curtains drawn behind them. A covered verandah extends to the right, its timber posts leaning under the weight of grey sky. Beyond the shack, dunes climb higher still. Wind ripples pattern the sand in every direction.

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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