Waves

Provenance

Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings: 70mm · f/2.8 · 1/800 · ISO 64
Paper: Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

Waves gather force, rolling in from the Pacific Ocean towards the weathered shacks of Tin City. White foam spreads across the sand, a relentless, powerful rhythm shaping this remote coastal settlement.

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01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title: Waves
Series: Tin City
Catalogue: TCI-035
Process: Giclée
Captured: 1 February 2018
Camera: NIKON D850
Lens: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter: 1/800 s
ISO: 64
Focal length: 70 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

Waves run in along the long beach below Tin City, the lines of swell breaking on the sand bar and rolling up the slope of the foreshore. The water is the pale green of shallow coastal surf. The sand at the wave line is a wet darker grey; up the beach it lightens to the bone-pale colour of the dunes behind. There are no breaks in the surf line for as far as the frame holds. The Stockton Bight runs from Newcastle in the south to Anna Bay in the north, around 32 km of continuous beach. From this stretch of it, in this direction, there is nothing built on the shore.

The shacks of Tin City sit on the dune line behind the beach, accessible only across the sand. The shipwreck history of this coast is the original reason there is anything human on the dunes at all: 59 ships were eventually lost on Newcastle shores, and in the late 19th century two tin sheds were put up here to hold provisions for the crews who washed up. The wrecks are mostly gone now. The wave line is the same wave line that took them. The shacks above the dune are the descendants of the sheds those wrecks made necessary.

04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

A corrugated iron shack sits half-swallowed by sand dunes at Tin City. Panels of olive green, cream, charcoal and rust red patch the walls in mismatched sections. Two small windows face out. A chimney stack rises from the roofline. The sand climbs to door height. Overcast sky presses low and grey above the dune line.

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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