ONCE UPON A TIME...

...I lived in a double-decker bus, reg. JRR 404, better known as the Free Photographic Omnibus. She was my home, my travelling darkroom and gallery.

For fourteen months in 1973 and '74, we travelled about making a national portrait of the English. We covered 10,000 miles shooting pictures and giving them away. In January 1975 we parted company.

But that isn't the end of the story for, despite being made so long ago, more people than ever are now discovering these photographs.

Like everyone who visited Burberry's Here We Are exhibition: 25,000 visitors in London last September; and 17,000 visitors in Paris (see picture) earlier this year.

Picture: Magali Delporte

NOW SHOWING:
Distinctly
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi Province, China.
19 - 25 September 2018.
Curator: Tracy Marshall.
150 works by British photographers Elaine Constantine, Robert Darch, Ken Grant, Chris Killip, Markéta Luskačová, Kirsty Mackay, Niall McDiarmid, Tish Murtha, John Myers, Martin Parr & Paul Seawright. Daniel Meadows is represented by a selection of National Portraits: Now & Then photographs from the Free Photographic Omnibus (1974 & 1990s). 
See the Observer article by Sean O'Hagan:

Modern Nature
The Hepworth, Wakefield.
13 July – 22 April 2019.
Sixty photographs from the collection of Claire & James Hyman "exploring our relationship with the natural world and how this shapes individuals and communities." Includes works by Shirley Baker, Bill Brandt, Caravan Gallery, Paul Hill, Chris Killip, Martin Parr, Mark Power, Tony Ray-Jones. Daniel Meadows is represented by Three Boys and a Pigeon(1974).