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"Waiting for a bus or a tram. Without impatience.
Resting for a while, thinking of nothing, or just about what really matters.
Days go by. Sitting down and wondering at everyday life. Dodging the routine, the absurd.
In short, to install a break time. "
Etienne Buyse
"Etienne Buyse’s project offered one of those very different approaches. Shooting through the bus stop shelter plastic brought a dreamy quality to the images created. The palette was very painterly and diffuse and bore a closer relation to impressionism than the gritty street work of some of the iconic images made by the masters of street photography. Still I thought the quality of alienation and isolation that is often an aspect of street work was present. The subjects were captured in a separate reality, both shielded and exposed." Molly Roberts, Senior Photography Editor - National Geographic Magazine