Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70, right) talks to a fellow passenger on the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. Elnora says: 'Its kind of like there has been a shrinkage. Over the pa (...)
st couple of years, we're becoming less and less. We're retiring, and younger people don't want to do this. They don't want to work in Mountain Brook.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ruby O. Fox (81) walks up the long driveway to the house where she works as a domestic help after riding the Cherokee Bend 50 bus from downtown Birmingham to Mountain Brook. "It's been so long, I g (...)
ot too old now. We have been coming over this mountain a long time. Like half our life."
Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70) walks down the steps of her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham.
'Its kind of like there has b (...)
een a shrinkage. Over the past couple of years, we're becoming less and less. We're retiring, and younger people don't want to do this. They don't want to work in Mountain Brook.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Elnora Shearer (70) stands by the side of the road near her home in Birmingham, Alabama. She works as a domestic help in the affluent Mountain Brook neighbourhood of Birmingham.
'Its kind of like (...)
there has been a shrinkage. Over the past couple of years, we're becoming less and less. We're retiring, and younger people don't want to do this. They don't want to work in Mountain Brook.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake | Invisible Bus Ellamae Carlisle (81) walks to work after getting off the Cherokee Bend 50 bus in Mountain Brook where she works as a domestic help. 'I started working when I was 9 years old. My aunt would carry m (...)
e to work with her. That’s how I learned how to iron. She would show me how to do the clothes and things, so I come up working.' Birmingham, Alabama, USA. 2014. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos