In 2003 photographic team Alan and Gretchen were intrigued by the evocative environments that hotel rooms of Southland, New Zealand offered. The photographers were inspired by the Gateway Resort's nostalgic air, with rooms that preserved relics of the past.

The considered colour palettes of the décor, matching linen, and the varying architectural choices of these suites expressed individual personalities.

Alan and Gretchen wanted to depict the vacant rooms in a personifying manner that emphasized the absence of human presence while evoking the expectation of arrival.

"There is something odd about the placement of the room’s utilitarian features," said the photographers. "The rooms were treated as found objects and the photographs are the document of these objects."

Lumsden Hotel is located on a highway junction halfway between Queenstown and Invercargill in Southland, New Zealand. Situated in a town that was once a major railway junction, which repeatedly closed in 1971, 1978, 1979 and lastly 1982. Lumsden has a population of less than 500.

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