
A Seoul bus stop built to resemble a television set. Scroll through the gallery to see more of Dieter Leistner's images.

A traveler waits in a cabin-like bus stop in Austria.

A grand backdrop to a simple bus stop in Munich, Germany.

A lonely wait in Maipú, Argentina.

Leistner's book features two images from transit stops in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang. "No one speaks," he observed.

Commuters in Buenos Aires. Leistner said that, compared with other countries, people in Argentina "have great fun" at bus stops.

People wait for a bus in communist Poland in 1980.

A 2016 shot from a bus stop in Beijing, China.

A scene from Zurich, Switzerland.

Two people wait in a shady spot in Istanbul, Turkey.

A man waits on a wall in Murdeira, Cape Verde.

A colorful backdrop captured in London, UK.

Waiting around in Whangarei, New Zealand.

An elaborate roof on a transit stop in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan.

Passengers wait for a train in Prague's metro system.

An intimate moment captured in a public space in Germany.

Dieter Leistner's "Waiting: People in Transit," published by Avedition, is available now.

A shot taken in Bratislava in 2019, more than 40 years after Leistner started the project.


