Swiatek Wojtkowiak - Madagascar


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    Polish photographer Swiatostaw Wojtkowiak made this series in Madagascar. Click here to visit his website



    1) Not only in Calcutta, as some may think, you can find foot rickshaws. They have their names painted on side, like this one here. Called pousse-pousse, because of shouts for help to push , when rickshaw men try to go uphill.


    5,6) Street roulette is very popular in Mada.


    7) Men at the small town Miandrivazo


    8) Ferry crossing in Bekopaka, Tsingy National Park.


    9,10,11) Baobab Avenue, western Madagascar.


    15) Bar in the south of Madagascar.


    16) A small port with no road access on the wild Tsiribihina river in the west of Madagascar. The woman on the photo is wearing a facial mask that protects her from the sun and a national dress, a cloth called lamba.


    18) Girl watching a local football match from a tree in the street outside the pitch.


    19) On the seaside in Manakara, promenade facing Indian Ocean.


    23) Brother and sister, western Madagascar.


    24,25) Boy and old woman on a veranda of an old, decaying colonial house on the main street of Belo.

     





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