The Wall

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 14mm · f/8.0 · 1/60 · ISO 64
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Corrugated iron sheeting runs the length of a Tin City structure, its base half-swallowed by wind-driven sand. Sparse coastal grass pushes through the dune. A second small building sits exposed on the open sandflat beyond.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: The Wall
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-020
Process: Giclée
Captured: 31 January 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/8.0
Shutter: 1/60 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

A single wall of one of the Tin City shacks fills the frame, the corrugated iron in a soft patchwork of pale greys and rusted reds. The wall has been built and repaired in layers: an underlying course of older, darker iron, a middle section of mid-period galvanised steel, and a recent patch in Colorbond at the top right. The seams between materials run as visible horizontal lines. The screws holding each sheet to the timber framing behind are visible in regular rows. A small window has been let into the wall near one corner, glazed in salvaged louvres. Sand has built up against the lower edge.

A Tin City wall is a record of every repair decision made on it. The materials change with each generation of cladding available at the time; the timber framing underneath is often older than any of the visible sheets and has been replaced piece by piece as it rotted. Tin City's shacks are nearly all of similar age in terms of when they were first built (the 1930s Depression-era settlement, rebuilt post-war), but the visible surfaces are much younger. The 11 remaining shacks all carry walls like this one, an accumulating history of small fixes that adds up to a building.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Corrugated iron sheeting looking to a distant Tin City shack

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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