Scott McAulay captures how old car engines in Thailand are lovingly deconstructed, and repurposed to power the family boat.
A Longtail Boat engine is the reincarnation of a reclaimed car/truck engine. They’re ripped out of the old family Corolla when it’s given up, before being transformed and reborn.
These engines become intertwined in a symbiotic relationship with vastly different families, in a way not considered by many. Each engine has its own idiosyncratic personality, and depends on its driver to MacGyver it into the force behind his/her lightweight long canoe. Many of which form the backbone of Thailand’s tourist transport.
The engines are, once again, a part of the family.
It’s a kind of tough oily love.
Melbourne-based photographer Scott McAulay has for the last 30 years, photographed a diverse range of people in numerous countries, from 50 Cent in his NYC offices, to children playing in the dirt lanes of Soweto.
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Stephen Lovell-Davis captured, from within, the quiet resilience and brotherhood of Euston’s railwaymen in the early ’80s.
Rober Tomás uses street photography as a tool that fuses self-discovery and emotion into personal expression.
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