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24 Sep, 2009

From the upper deck

Posted by: Michał In: Pole poll| photography

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My occasional series Pole poll is back with a bang. Well, with a flash – as today’s ’subject’ is a Pole, but also a very fine photographer. He’s also very private, so I’ve abandoned the usual format of five questions and five answers to concentrate more on his superb project called ‘From The Upper Deck‘.

Przemek Wajerowicz came to London some four years ago and turned his passion for street photography into a very London hobby – he started going around the city on double-decker buses, taking pictures of people and situations from a slightly different perspective.

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He told me that the view from the upper deck of a double-decker bus had always fascinated him and he started taking pictures from the moment he arrived in London. However he lost the initial batch of photographs after his hard drive crashed.

But he picked himself up and carried on. Soon the hobby became a project. And an ambitious one too – Przemek wants to travel every single bus line in London – from the very first to the very last stop.

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In 2008 he started publishing his daily bus pictures on his blog and once he’s tackled everything Transport for London has to offer, he wants to publish a book with the best pictures taken from the upper deck. And I’m looking forward to getting a copy. As a photographer myself I think this is a great project and Przemek executes it with passion.

I’m planning to write a bit on his project soon elsewhere, for now here’s more From The Upper Deck.

You can also follow Przemek on Twitter.

All images © Przemek Wajerowicz used with author’s permission

1 Response to "From the upper deck"

1 | MirandaNo Gravatar

September 26th, 2009 at 11:29 am

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Fascinating project. 300 (?) bus routes, 1,000 hours travelling = 40 days work! Maybe! Have you seen ‘Polska Trzy epoki 1927, 1957 and 2007 by Pascal? Very interesting.
Having difficulty in getting ’search’ bit of blog to work! Trying to find the article on Banksey and the link to a site that you wrote about. Thanks M

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