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, for people still want to look at those pictures we made, all that time ago.
Picture: Magali Delporte
As at the Burberry Here We Are exhibition — 25,000 visitors in London, September 2017 — and 17,000 visitors in Paris (above), January 2018.
NEWS
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. 1973. Documentary Expression and Thirties America: "Social documentary dignifies the usual and levels the extraordinary. Most often its subject is the common man, and when it is not, the subject, however exalted he be, is looked at from the common man's point-of view."