Tom Wood - Bus Odyssey (First Edition) - 2002

Their faces are lined and weary, their clothing changed by ever-evolving fashions—the people who ride buses every day are hardly the subjects of photographs. But the images Tom Wood has captured over 20 years of traveling on Liverpool's buses are much more than mere records of mass transit in England. Instead, they take viewers and passengers alike on an odyssey where the ordinary becomes fascinating. Seen only through the windows of a bus, Liverpool's streets, buildings, parks, traffic, and pedestrians are recreated from a human and accessible perspective. The bus itself becomes a primarily visual space, a metal box with vast glass surfaces, a viewfinder that inherently tells a story as it moves through a city transformed into a pictorial landscape.