Title: Tickets Please
The aim of this documentary is to convey the ever-day life of the commutes within the city of Birmingham. Capturing the way passengers pass their time during their journey: and to observe the different ways they occupy themselves within this environment. Photographing situations where it is no longer popular or commonplace to talk to fellow passengers in this shared space where a new generation seems preoccupied with texting family or friends, or listening to Ipods or simply eating a bag chips.
The number 11C bus double-decker travels both clockwise and anticlockwise around the city ring-road carrying 50,000 passengers each day on one of Europe’s longest urban bus routes which first came into existence in 1923. Stopping at 266 stops? Passing through seventeen different areas in and around the city, Handsworth, Winson Green, Bearwood, Harborne, Bournville, Selly Oak, Cotteridge, King's Heath, Moseley, Acocks Green and finally Six Ways in Erdington, it takes three hours to complete a full circuit and provides an opportunity to document a travelling population that come from socially and culturally
backgrounds.
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