Preston Bus Station

Jamie Hawkesworth's Preston Bus Station collects portraits of commuters and passersby photographed inside one of Britain's largest Brutalist bus stations, made after Hawkesworth learned the 1969 building was under threat of demolition.

Returning to his hometown for a month, Hawkesworth walked the station's single continuous loop every day, approaching whoever caught his eye among the travelers passing through on the Megabus route north and south. The resulting portraits, made without a fixed plan beyond that daily circuit, were brought together into a 196-page hardcover published by Dashwood Books in 2017, designed by Hans Seeger, in a first edition of 2,000 copies that included a numbered issue of 100 sold with a print.

The project traces back to 2010, when Hawkesworth first photographed the station as a student working with tutor Adam Murray, producing a newspaper of teenage portraits that helped launch his career in fashion and portrait photography. This monograph gathers seven years of return visits into his first full-length book, anchoring his later editorial work in the same instinct for unplanned encounter.