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
The Shop on Greame Street 1972 (Café Royal Books, 2016) by Daniel Meadows.
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.
Books. 1996. The Emigrants. 1999. The Rings Of Saturn. Storytelling and pictures never went so well together. These books take you into a magical space which is entirely, uniquely and infinitely their own.