When I picked up this book i felt like I could immediately relate to it. I really liked the idea behind the photographs as they were all taken in, on and around the bus. The bus is something that everyone uses at some point in their lives and when you think about it is a very weird environment. A lot of the time people are all sitting together but there is very little communication between everyone. This project is described as a look at the 'somewhat banal marginal sides of everyday life.' and that many people on the bus 'embrace each other with the same absent intensity with which the other people on the bus distance themselves from each other'.
I think that this makes for an interesting place to photograph and in essence a challenge. Wood used a Leica camera that had a quieter shutter so that people wouldn't hear his camera as easily. There was also the issue of photographing out the window due to the reflection but in many ways this creates a nice effect as you can see both people outside and inside the bus at the same time.
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