Marco Polo Motel at Parramatta Road, three storeys of grey brick columns frame open balconies with decorative breezeblock.

Series · 27 prints

Parramatta Road

Photographed 2016 - 2018
Frames 27
Camera NIKON D750 · NIKON D850
Location New South Wales, Australia
Status Active mixed-use commercial corridor; subject to 30-year NSW urban transformation strategy
Opened 1811
Specs 23 km corridor · Australia's oldest highway · Broadway to Granville
01 ABOUT THIS SERIES

Series story

Parramatta Road follows a much older route, used for thousands of years by the Wangal, Wallumedegal, Burramattagal, and Cadigal peoples before colonial adoption around 1789 to 1791. Today it is one of Sydney's main thoroughfares: 23 km of heavy traffic, with used car dealers at the Parramatta end ("Auto Alley") and a mix of historic shopfronts, new apartment blocks, and WestConnex demolition at the eastern end. The series moves between streetscape and individual buildings - 107 Parramatta Road in Annandale (an 1890s Victorian Filigree shopfront with original living quarters above accessible only by ladder), the Marco Polo Motel at Summer Hill, the Olympia Milk Bar in Stanmore, Mario's Meat Market, and shopfronts whose ground floors have been busy for a century while the rooms above have been empty for fifty years.

03 PRINTS

Prints in this series

04 ABOUT THE PRINTS

How they’re made

Paper

Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm. Metallic Gloss 260 gsm for acrylic-mounted prints.

Sizes

Five sizes, XS to XL, from $100. Open editions in XS and S, limited editions in M, L and XL.

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Production

Made to order in 5 to 10 business days.