This is Photobus by Daniel Meadows, homepage of the Free Photographic Omnibus and Digital Stories. Photobus is a journey in photo documentary. It began in the 1970s with still photographs and continues into the present, a time when pictures have discovered the talkies.
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
Or the 9,000 visitors in China who, over six days this September, visited Distinctly at Pingyao International Photography Festival.
See the Observer article:
NOW SHOWING:
Modern Nature
The Hepworth, Wakefield.
13 July 2018 – 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).
NEWS
New Order: Decades broadcast Saturday 22 September 2018.
Boot-boys are 'Big Picture' in the Observer.
Kelly McErlean's new book, Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling, London: Routledge, pp.14-15
Daniel Meadows, part of Great Exhibition of the North at Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Daniel Meadows in new exhibition at The Hepworth, Wakefield, opening 13 July.
Daniel Meadows and Niall McDiarmid, walk-and-talk at the Martin Parr Foundation.
Manchester show featuring Daniel Meadows’s The Shop On Greame Street (1972) opens 19 April.
New title from Café Royal Books, Daniel Meadows’s film stills from Tony Palmer’s Testimony, 1987.
Daniel Meadows and David Hurn walk-and-talk Hurn’s ‘Swaps’ exhibition at Museum Wales in Cardiff.
Polyfoto
r/t: 2 min, 23 sec.
In the UK when we ask: "Where are you from?" we want to know a lot more about you than just your place of birth.
This story is about the England I come from.
Book. 1981. Camera Lucida, reflections on photography. After years of dispassionate analysis Barthes comes across a photograph of his mother as a child, the "winter garden photograph". He lets his feelings in and suddenly the ideas start bouncing off the page: "I had discovered this photograph by moving back through Time? I worked back through a life, not my own, but the life of someone I love. Starting from her latest image, taken the summer before her death (so tired, so noble, sitting in front of the door of our house, surrounded by my friends), I arrived, traversing three quarters of a century, at the image of a child: I stare intensely at the Sovereign Good of childhood, of the mother, of the mother-as-child. Of course I was then losing her twice over, in her final fatigue and in her first photograph, for me the last; but it was also at this moment that everything turned around and I discovered her as unto herself. "