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PHOTOS: Your car has a lot to say about who you are

NPR Topics: News·@KamalaThiagarajan·2 months ago
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By Kamala Thiagarajan Abdul's vehicle promotes his work as a carpet repair man in Mumbai, India. Martin Roemers hide caption Homo Mobilis is not just a photography book about cool cars. The phrase is Latin for "mobile human." This project by Dutch photographer Martin Roemers depicts all kinds of vehicles: cars the likes of which you've probably never seen before, including one with a garden sprouting from its roof, along with animal-drawn transport and bicycles. And Roemers is not just looking for visual details. He uses vehicles as a vehicle for philosophical questions: How do our methods of transportation represent our identities, reflect global inequalities and illustrate the changing nature of mobility as we drive forward in the 21st century. Roemers spent nearly five years on this project, visiting eight countries in four continents and photographing around 200 cars and other vehicles. 160 of these found their way into the book. He identifies the owners by first name only.…

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