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

Sand has buried the base of the corrugated iron walls to window height. The roller door stands open. Inside, timber sheets and shelving lean against the back wall. A number four is fixed beside the entrance.

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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: 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

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

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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