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f a car can be a man’s passion, then the tap-taps of haiti and the Jeepneys of thephilippines are folk-art love affairs. painted with erratic designs and images, these tricked-outtaxis and buses aren’t Just modes of transport; they are vestigial organs of colonialism, sym-bols of homegrown ingenuity, and the globalized intersection where seemingly disparate cul-tures collide. they are fast-driving, smog-barfing art galleries on wheels.

Tap-taps photographed by

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