Red Bus Diary
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Red Bus Diary is book by New Zealand
photographer Tim Veling. As part of a Masters project Veling spent two years riding Christchurch
's public buses with his Leica camera
, exploring the city and photographing sights and scenes that caught his interest as well as talking to people and listening to conversations going on around him, these photos were later published in the book along with the stories of people he met on his journey as well as the story of his own life in the 3 years he spent doing the project.
Forty-nine of Tim's photographs featured in the Red Bus Diary exhibition in Christchurchs CoCA Gallery in August 2006 as part of the "A Place in Time" project, a University of Canterbury
School of Fine Arts multi-media project that documents the 21st century. The project attracted nationwide media interest and Veling was interviewed on TV ONE's Breakfast show and featured in local newspapers. Veling did not take notes while riding the buses, "I'd just start chatting to people near me or listen to the conversations around me, or get off and walk around and just soak up the feel of things. Some days I wouldn't talk to anyone but just try to get some sort of feeling for what was happening around me."
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
photographer Tim Veling. As part of a Masters project Veling spent two years riding Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
's public buses with his Leica camera
Camera
A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
, exploring the city and photographing sights and scenes that caught his interest as well as talking to people and listening to conversations going on around him, these photos were later published in the book along with the stories of people he met on his journey as well as the story of his own life in the 3 years he spent doing the project.
Forty-nine of Tim's photographs featured in the Red Bus Diary exhibition in Christchurchs CoCA Gallery in August 2006 as part of the "A Place in Time" project, a University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...
School of Fine Arts multi-media project that documents the 21st century. The project attracted nationwide media interest and Veling was interviewed on TV ONE's Breakfast show and featured in local newspapers. Veling did not take notes while riding the buses, "I'd just start chatting to people near me or listen to the conversations around me, or get off and walk around and just soak up the feel of things. Some days I wouldn't talk to anyone but just try to get some sort of feeling for what was happening around me."