London Photography Award Nomination Daniel Meadows: 'Turning an old double decker into a mobile darkroom and living space, he drove around England for 14 months taking portraits of people on their own streets. He really engages with people and let’s them speak for themselves, rather than taking a pose, point and press approach... it captures a time in history, and the ordinary really is extraordinary.'

Culture Vulture on The Great Ordinary Show at the National Media Museum, Bradford: “Daniel Meadows is an inspirational documentarist... Meadows developed an ingenious project called the Free Photographic Omnibus. Turning an old double decker into a mobile darkroom and living space, he drove around England for 14 months taking portraits of people on their own streets. He really engages with people and let’s them speak for themselves, rather than taking a pose, point and press approach... it captures a time in history, and the ordinary really is extraordinary.”

Disillusioned with his middle class origins and boarding school background, Meadows took to photographing the obliging working class folk of Manchester during the 70s and 80s. In 1973, he successfully gained funding from the Arts Council to travel around Northern Britain in a mobile photography unit more easily recognisable as the double-decker bus. He has collaborated heavily with fellow London Award nominee Martin Parr during his career, and shares the same fascination with the so-called “Great Ordinary”. He has taught at the Cardiff school of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies for over seventeen years and his BBC Wales project Capture Wales won the BAFTA Cymru Award in 2002.