transport - COLORS MAGAZINE, A SURVIVAL GUIDE
Make or customise your transport. Photos of Battle trucks from Libya, Bicycle taxis from Kenya, Cars powered on chip fat in Wales, and homemade rubbish trucks in Serbia | Installation Views
Abdul and Waled, near Ajdabiya, Libya
Hassain and Muhammad, near Ajdabiya, Libya
Safe and Hammid, near Ajdabiya, Libya
Fathallah and Moftah, near Ajdabiya, Libya
Salah and Adel, near Ajdabiya, Libya
Muhammad, Emraga and Abdalslam, near Ajdabiya, Libya
Cosma Mutuku’s bike “Home is best”
“As I have to live or die, I opted for boda-boda” Peter Wanyonyi
Benson Muni’s bike “Mutemba”
Jackson Mbore Mutunga’s bike “Jesus is Real”
How do you make a boat from rubbish? How do you carry fifteen people on a motorbike? How do you build a submarine in your attic? COLORS 81 explores where, why and how individuals are designing new ways of getting around. The world’s transport systems are over 90% reliant on oil, and oil is running out. Whether driven by local constraints or simply chasing their dreams, the inventors we’ve found, their strange vehicles and extraordinary stories are proof of the power of human ingenuity to solve problems.
