Elijah Mirochnik
Chinatown Bus
My camera reminds me that I am a body. A body that is in constant interaction with its environment. In this series of photographs, I was enveloped within the environment of the Chinatown Bus that transported me from New York City to D.C..
Seated inside of the bus, my own body was static in comparison to the buses movements. But because the bus enveloped me, when it moved I moved. Although my own body did not literally show up in these pictures, its presence within the vehicle that transported me from New York City to D.C. did show up.
My body became implicated in these images. People and landscapes seen inside and outside of the bus were never detached from the buses movements: movements over bumps on the highway, inside of curves, passing from dark night into glaring tunnels, speeding across turnpikes from city to country, shooting across bridges, grinding to a halt at stop lights and rest stops.
The images here recognize that when I say I make pictures, I mean that I am a body in motion, and the camera is a way of recording my body and describing my motion.
Boarding in Chinatown NYC
Luggage
Newspaper Reader
04 Holland Tunnel Entrance
In
Holland Tunnel
In
Holland Tunnel 2
Driver
Windshield
Driver's Hand
10 New Jersey Turnpike
Reading Lamp
Drive Safely
Oil Refinery
Oil Refinery 2
15 Near Newark Airport
Bridge
Maryland House
Near Baltimore
Capital Beltway
Capitol in Distance
