Lilli Waters for Mercedes Benz | Sam I Am Management

Turning her lens to the Mercedes-Maybach GLS, Lilli says she wanted to capture the nostalgia of a long road trip, while reimagining the luxury SUV with the kind of curiosity, mystery and moodiness for which she has become known.

“I hope it draws people in, catches their eye with a subtle strangeness and makes them curious,” she says. “People probably have an image in their head of what Mercedes-Benz is – a feeling and sense of luxury and style – and I wanted these images to have a timeless aesthetic and playful quality using familiar yet unexpected objects, which is why using film was so important to me.”

“I wanted these images to be a contrast of the contemporary vehicle mixed with a timeless feel. I was very excited to photograph this series on an old medium format film camera, which gives the images a nostalgic look, as if they could have been taken in the 1950s.”

Shot amongst rolling hills north of Melbourne, the Mercedes-Maybach GLS takes on a brilliant new form through unique angles and striking colourways, captured with Lilli’s signature sense of cinema.

She tapped into this retro sensibility and the idea of a long summer road trip by homing in on the warmth of the wood veneer, using afternoon sunlight to “capture the feeling of balmy afternoons with a cool breeze”.