I've started a new photobook publishing venture called MMM Photobooks. The first publication is Peter Black's MOTEL LIFE (pub 2021 in an edition of 50). $NZ45 (plus shipping).

MOTEL LIFE is distributed by Bad News Books. The first and second editions sold - very limited copies will be available at the Photobook/NZ bookfair in August 2022 at Te Papa at the Bad News Books table.

MOTEL LIFE named as one of the best illustrated books of 2021 by Steve Braunias on Newsroom and was a highly commended book in the Aotearoa Photobook Awards

MOTEL LIFE mixes the elements of the poetic with engaged documentary photography. The images show exteriors, interiors and the people who inhabit motels in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Photographed in both upmarket and budget accommodation, the images are strange, melancholic and poignant, and often seem to contain the feelings of the previous occupants.

“Peter’s scrutinizing lens plucks fruit from an orchard of mundanity. Although many of the images are devoid of direct human presence, they never read as impersonal. On the contrary, the strength of MOTEL LIFE lies in the tension created from its balance of intimacy and anonymity. I’ll start by saying this is going to be a great book!” Matthew Casteel (American Interiors, pub Dewi Lewis).

Includes the poem Ode to the Motel, by Mary Macpherson.

45 photographs over 72 pages

247x177mm

Printed on 128gsm Silk Matt

Soft cover, matt laminated

$45 (NZ)

To register interest in a second edition, email: marymacpherson8@gmail.com. (Please put second edition in the subject line)