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My little business
Human-powered vehicles such as sedan chairs, rickshaws and palanquins are one of the simplest forms of passenger transportation. Although sometimes organized by commercial companies, as was the case in 17th-century London, such businesses require only minimal funds to set up. Rickshaws or tuk-tuks, now motorized, are still used for transporting passengers over short distances, offering the advantages of low-energy consumption and modest setup costs.
There is even a revival of interest in environment-friendly cyclo-taxis in developed countries.
Ian Berry
The photographer Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England and at 20 left for South Africa, where he still lives. He witnessed the conflicts, in particular the 1960 Sharpeville massacre. He was invited by Henri Cartier-Bresson to join Magnum, the agency he had established in 1947 with Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour. Berry's reporting assignments have covered a wide range of issues round the world, including the tragedy of child slavery in Ghana and the forced displacement of millions of Chinese to make way for a large dam project. His study of James Joyce's Dublin has a strong underlying esthetic power.