Author Description

"After college, when he lived in a converted double-decker bus, complete with darkroom and gallery, Meadows was able to deliver free portrait sessions more-or-less anywhere. Between the end of September 1973 and the beginning of November 1974, he ran twenty-two sessions in towns and cities across England photographing 958 people and, in the process, discovered many of the stories that would later appear in his first book Living Like This (Arrow, 1975). A quarter-of-a-century after his journey in the Free Photographic Omnibus, as curators and editors renewed their interest in the 1970s, his Bus Portraits were re-presented. In the touring exhibition National Portraits: Photographs from the 1970s by Daniel Meadows (Viewpoint Gallery, Salford; Montage Gallery, Derby".--BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY, THE HYMAN COLLECTION website: http://www.britishphotography.org/artists/18772/ei/2088/daniel-meadows-daniel-meadows-the-free-photographic-omnibus-portraits-1973-1974.