Seven

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 66mm · f/8.0 · 1/80 · ISO 360
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Rusting corrugated iron panels clad a small dwelling at Tin City on Stockton Bight. Sand heaps against the walls, slowly reclaiming the structure amidst the windswept dunes. This isolated settlement endures.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Seven
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-032
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 February 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/80 s
ISO: 360
Focal length: 66 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 Seven at Tin City stands at one end of the settlement, its corrugated iron walls painted a flat blue-grey that has weathered down to something close to driftwood. The painted numeral 7 is large on the front wall, hand-applied in white, the brushstrokes still visible. A short timber porch runs along the front, raised slightly above the surrounding sand. The roof line is single-pitched, sloping toward the back. Salvaged window frames have been let into the side wall, glazed in mismatched panes. Sand drifts up against the back wall in a wedge that the wind keeps replenishing.

The shacks at Tin City are commonly referred to by number or by personal nickname rather than any formal address. The numbering reflects the order in which the surviving shacks sit along the ridge; the names trace back to the period before the settlement was formally licensed. Tin City sits at the Stockton Bight on Worimi country in Port Stephens. Eleven shacks remain. They are administered under the Worimi Conservation Lands Plan of Management 2015, which allows the shacks to pass to family or friends but prohibits both sale and any rebuilding after destruction.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Shack number seven sits low against the dunes at Tin City, Stockton Beach. Corrugated iron walls, rust-streaked and salt-bleached to grey. A faded roller door dominates the front face. Spinifex grass pushes through the sand at the threshold. A thin antenna mast leans slightly. Overcast sky presses down, heavy and close. The dunes rise behind, bare and wind-sculpted.

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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