Watford Gap: The First Motorway Service Station

by Sam Mellish

Photographs: Sam Mellish, Martin Parr

Text: Sam Mellish, David Harsent

Publisher: Diesel Books; First Edition edition

160 pages

Year: 2013

ISBN: 978-0956692825

Price: 25 €

Comments: hardcover, 13 x 1.6 x 19 cm. Language: English

Watford Gap is an intimate study of the myriad different people who pass through the doors of the UK ‘First Motorway Service Station’. Created in collaboration with celebrated UK poet David Harsent and prolific documentary photographer Martin Parr, Watford Gap is a both light hearted and touching portrait of the UK on the move.

Includes archival works by Martin Parr.

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