Baby Taxis
A baby taxi in Bangalore, 2008
This photograph was taken from the passenger seat of a ‘baby taxi’ in Bangalore. It was one of many similar stills that were edited together for the final sequence of the film Not in Our Name. When I started making films with Hazuan Hashim over 10 years ago I continued to document the world around me through photography. I’ve never really understood those who say the two disciplines of film and photography are different. There is a school of thought that suggests that you should abandon still photography once you start working in film. I think this is a ludicrous idea. A film is just still images projected at 24 frames a second to give the illusion of movement. The image above conveys movement because of the relative stillness of the driver compared to the chaotic movement outside the baby taxi. A sequence of similar shots taken in rapid succession were edited together to provide a moody final sequence for the end of the film.
A baby taxi drives past a woman, Chennai 2007
Baby taxi in traffic jam, Dhaka 2009
Baby taxis, Dhaka Bangladesh 1994
Baby taxi, Dhaka Bangladesh 1994
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce on Brick Lane, 2008
Rolls-Royce on Commercial Street, 1986
Boxes
Boy carrying box, Whitechapel 1985.
Boy carrying box, Chittagong 2008
Boy carrying box, Brick Lane 1988
On the move
City man using a mobile phone, 2007
What do the two men in these photographs have in common? They are both on the move and using a mobile. Which one has the most fulfilling life?
Man with mobile phone. Bangladesh 2009
Fashion Street
Walking down Fashion Street, 1993
This family are walking past the former ‘Moorish Market’ designed and built in 1905 by entrepreneurs Abraham and Woolf Davis as a retail arcade in an unusual oriental style, with horseshoe arches. It was a commercial failure and changed to industrial use in 1909. It was empty and in disrepair for many years and was restored in 2003 for business use.
Woman walking into Fashion Street from Brick Lane, 1983
Woman walking past a wall covered in graffiti, Fashion Street 2008
Youth on Fashion Street, 2010
Woman with trolley walking down Fashion Street, 2010
