transport

This image shows how people do long journeys on public transport, reflecting solitude and contradiction at the same time.

The need for transportation when funds are low creates a need for people to be creative with their mode of transport. In Lao and Cambodia this seems to be evident. In these photos we see families on a back of a tractor, walking the roads in Lao to get from one place to another . In Cambodia we can see people sleeping on their bikes, others riding,standing and sitting beside their form of transport. For some this is how they earn their income to survive.

The bus may be public transport, but passengers occupy private worlds. Personal space is habitually maintained, and interaction is often non-existent, at other times minimal and purely functional. In this enclosed space, breaching the barrier of another passenger's private world creates a higher sense of tension than it otherwise might. This photographic project documents the private worlds of passengers on the number 79 bus. Sometimes, the boundary of the subject's private space is crossed, and these images are further informative for the subject's response.

A home made motorcylce powered by an electrical saw engine.
Shot in Havana, Cuba, 2009