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).