“There is nowhere on Earth weirder than the Columbus, Ohio, Greyhound station at three in the morning,” says Ian Willms, a Canadian photographer.
He challenges me to name a place more unusual. I have no refute.
It’d be wise to trust Willms’ knowledge, as he’s spent over 1,000 hours using the bus line that turned 100 last year.
He is quite aware that this is “definitely contrary to what most people would want to do with their time.”
But his transient nature, as he describes it, complements his subject matter, which will be revealed in a photo series, "The Hound," that he's slowly finishing.
Keep scrolling to see the images Willms has published so far.
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Willms started the project in the winter of 2013. He divides shooting time into blocks, usually three weeks to a month. "I’ve worked on projects where you get a good photo once a week ... With this project, I can find something I’m really into almost every day,” he says.
Photos of strangers he encounters on the bus are a big focus of the series so far. “You meet people who just got out of jail, people who are taking their whole family one state over to get a job. You meet people who are just out of their minds ... But most of the individuals I’ve talked to [have] something a bit heavier behind their reasons for traveling.”
“I pull out this little film camera [an old Nikon] that’s as old as I am and people think that I’m crazy, which fits in just fine on the Greyhound,” says Willms. He found the camera in a thrift store for $7.49 — after he'd been robed of his gear while traveling through Oakland, California, for the project. The point-and-shoot has become pivotal to his aesthete.
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