Michael Sullivan

Photographer
    
people on the bus...
Location: Madison, WI
Nationality: American
Biography: Michael Sullivan is a humanistic photographer located in Madison, Wisconsin. As a child, Michael recalls there being Polaroid and Instamatic camera’s used to capture special moments and every day happenings. Seeing his youth preserved in a... MORE
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people on the bus...
Copyright Michael Sullivan 2024
Updated Jul 2020
Location Madison, WI
Topics Black and White, Candid, Community, Documentary, Isolation, people on the bus, Photography, Portraiture, Street

Distant stares. Expressions of wonder. Moments in thought. Portraits of people on the bus as they ride from point A to point B. In riding a city bus you are on display for all to see. But despite the bus being public space, there is an assumed privacy among riders, including myself. Yet a compulsion to notice without being noticed overcomes me. And a confined, intimate, public space, becomes my studio. And the people on the bus my models.

Inspired by the work Walker Evans produced on the New York subway in the late 1930’s, the ‘people on the bus’ continues what he started and creates portraits of fleeting moments from the unobserved, who unknowingly pose for the unnoticed photographer.

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