These bus stops remind me of people, stragglers at some party that time forgot— the guy who laughs too loud, the sad girl clutching a plastic cup of wine. Looking at these pictures, you kind of want to give these bus stops a hug. Herwig spent 12 years crisscrossing the former Soviet Union, covering more than 18,000 miles. To him, these weren’t just places to catch a bus — but a free-standing gallery of public art that happens to span twelve countries…

For PRI’s The World [a co-production of the BBC]

 

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