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Observations, Reflections, and Photographs by Matthew Alan Lord

South Phoenix By Bus Photographic Essays

As I mentioned, I rode every bus route in South Phoenix and environs, seeing the community from a vantage point unfamiliar to most Phoenicians.  The photos were taken while riding the bus and while waiting for the next bus or to transfer from one line to another.  Many of the images were shot while in motion, conveying the whirlwind of changes in the South Phoenix landscape.  Many are blurred, especially the night shots.  These are here by design, as I intend them to mirror the sense of vertigo that Dr. Koptiuch discussed in the course

While a passenger, I took three types of photographs.  For the first, I shot whatever caught my eye inside the bus or in the surrounding landscape.  The second and third types of images I shot every time the driver or automated announcer called out an intersection or destination.  Each time that happened, I systematically photographed the interior (a wide shot) and then immediately zoomed in on the view through the front window.

I have organized the photographs here in two ways.   If you click on the table below, you will be taken to web pages for the corresponding routes.  You will get the entire run of images shot as I experienced the ride.  If you click here, you will be taken to a slide show that I have culled from the hundreds taken during this project.

Please note: My apologies to FireFox or other browser users, but these pages are optimized for Microsoft's Internet Explorer since it had 85% of the browser market at the time of writing.  Once the page opens for each chapter of the complete photo essay, clicking on the "Slide Show" icon will increase the image size.  Click on the screen to begin the show.  Press the "Esc" button at the upper left corner of the keyboard to exit the show.  Finally, the files range from 5 to 17 Mb so they take a few moments to load.

Click here for selections from the South Phoenix by Bus photo essay.  Click on route names below for each chapter of the complete photo essay.

 

Optimized for Microsoft's Internet Explorer