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 wasn't the end of the journey...
...I'm still working.
NEWS
Living Like This (Arrow Books 1975) by Daniel Meadows is featured in the August 2016 issue of Life Force, 'the magazine of the photo-essay'.
Daniel Meadows at Miniclick talks, 30 June 2016, The Bargehouse, Oxo Gallery, London.
A new radio documentary The Free Photographic Omnibus, made by award winning British producer Olivia Humphreys and first broadcast 17 June 2016,
is available for free download.
Neville, a new film by Multistory, celebrates the reunion between photographer Daniel Meadows and Neville Davies whom he photographed over forty years ago.
Liz Johnston Drew of Birkbeck College finds a 'lyrical turn' in English documentary photography.
Reactions to The Story 2016 (19 February) in a 'storify' of tweets and photos.
Polyfoto
r/t: 2 min, 23 sec.
In the UK when we ask: "Where are you from?" we want to know a lot more than just your place of birth.
This story is about the England I come from.
Two astonishing Digital Stories. Late 1990s.
Home Movies (aka The Turn Film) celebrates Atchley's grandfather's annual ritual of marching his four sons out of the house, walking them up the garden path and then telling them to do a 360 degree turn for the camera. By editing several of these "turn" clips together Atchley gives us a beautiful yet funny sequence of a family growing up, something he reflects upon in voice-over. Time is telescoped.
Redheads is narrated, both to camera and in voice-over, by Atchley's mother Martha who tells of her childhood growing up on a farm in western New York State.
I paid my first visit to Atchley's Next Exit site in the spring of 2000 and we immediately began an email exchange. He invited me to attend a Centre for Digital Storytelling workshop in Berkeley, California, later that year... which I did.