The Garage

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/80 · ISO 64
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Orange curtains hang in the left window of shack 4 at Tin City. The open central section shows a cluttered interior, a ramp-like structure and a white door leaning against the framing inside. Sand has built up against the base almost to windowsill height, burying the lower corrugated iron panels. The structure was previously known as the workshop.

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In situ

The Garage at Tin City, black-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

The Garage at Tin City, raw timber-framed print displayed in situ on a wall.

The Garage at Tin City, glass print displayed in situ on a wall.

01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: The Garage
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-018
Process: Giclée
Captured: 31 January 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/80 s
ISO: 64
Focal length: 14 mm
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size: 297 × 210 mm
Location: Anna Bay, 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

Anna Bay, New South Wales, Australia

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03 THE STORY

About this print

The garage at one of the Tin City shacks is a separate structure beside the main building, walled and roofed in corrugated iron with a sliding door across the front. The door runs on a galvanised steel track fixed above the opening. Inside the garage a 4WD ute is parked, its body dusty from the drive in across the dunes. Tools, jerry cans, and a few coils of rope hang from nails on the inside walls. A length of timber sits across the rafters above. The floor is hard-packed sand. The garage is large enough for the vehicle, with not much room for anything else.

Vehicle access to Tin City is by NPWS-licensed 4WD over the Stockton Bight dunes. Most working shacks have a garage or covered parking of some kind, partly to protect the vehicle from the salt air and partly to hold the gear that comes in and out with each visit: water, fuel, food, tools, replacement materials for the shack. The vehicles are kept ready for the drive back out. There is no service station between the shack and the nearest sealed road; whatever the ute needs has to be carried in. The 11 remaining shacks are administered under the Worimi Conservation Lands Plan of Management 2015.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Sand presses against the lower walls of a long, low shack at Tin City. Number 4. Corrugated iron cladding shows deep rust stains where moisture has crept upward from the dune. An open garage bay reveals tools, shelving, timber offcuts. A faded orange curtain hangs behind a dusty window. The sky is flat and grey. Everything at ground level is slowly disappearing under pale, fine-grained sand.

Brett Patman

The series

Tin City

37 photographs

Tin City is the local name for a group of huts behind the frontal dune on Stockton Bight, in the Worimi Conservation Lands between Newcastle and Port Stephens, New South Wales, on Worimi country. In 2015 there were 11, all single storey and clad in corrugated iron, with gable or skillion roofs. Most were built in the 1970s and 1980s; the oldest still standing that year dated from December 1970 and the youngest from 1992.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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