Bushtaxi is a collective of creative professionals focusing on telling the story of the developing world. The group includes writers, researchers, photographers, filmmakers and designers and experienced in meeting the communication needs of NGO’s and development agencies worldwide.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Bushtaxi.org is currently under construction and will launch very soon. This site will serve as a tool for organizations and agencies to find talented professionals to meet their communications needs while sharing stories and experiences from its members to greater public. Bushtaxi.org is a wordpress creation by web and print designer, Jim Shannon. Kate Thomas worked on the text for the website. The opening video on the home page was produced by Christopher Herwig with footage from Peru, Bangladesh and New York. Original music composition and sound editing by Michael Åberg. Additional footage from Mali by Olivier Malvoisin.
Take time
Ongoing project: by Kate Thomas. “Take time,” they say in Liberia, when they see you walking too fast, working too hard, squeezing too much into your day. As a writer working in developing countries in West Africa, and elsewhere in the world, I’m interested in different grasps of the concept of time. I could be two hours late to a meeting in Senegal (don’t worry, I try to make that a rarity) and somehow still get there before the other person. In London or New York, by then the day would have long moved on without me. In rural France, waiting for two hours for a bus to turn up … More
RAIN
CURRENT ONGOING PROJECT: RAIN by Christopher Herwig Inspired by my time in West Africa, I set out to tell the story of our relationship with rain—a force of nature essential to our survival, but that we cannot control or predict. Photographers often avoid rainy days as they tend to make dull images. Using camera housings designed for scuba divers, I can enter the heaviest of downpours to look for the beauty and drama of rain, while revealing the hardships and resilience of people living in some of the wettest places. With climate-change exacerbating weather extremes, rain is a major factor in the erosion of economies, displacement of populations and the death of thousands every … More