The understanding of »fast« and »slow« changes when you are already sitting on a bus for six hours until it starts its journey or when you spend four days in a tiny, overloaded pirogue to cover a distance of about 100km. I spent two months travelling through Madagascar, one of the poorest and at the same time most biodiverse countries in the world. The people met us with openness and curiosity – but sometimes also with great scepticism. Small children sometimes even reacted by crying. We learned that children sometimes spread scary stories about white people – this sounded funny at first, but we soon found out that many local communities are fighting against child prostitution brought into the country by white people.
Madagaskar 2014
The understanding of »fast« and »slow« changes when you are already sitting on a bus for six hours until it starts its journey or when you spend four days in a tiny, overloaded pirogue to cover a distance of about 100km. I spent two months travelling through Madagascar, one of the poorest and at the same time most biodiverse countries in the world. The people met us with openness and curiosity – but sometimes also with great scepticism. Small children sometimes even reacted by crying. We learned that children sometimes spread scary stories about white people – this sounded funny at first, but we soon found out that many local communities are fighting against child prostitution brought into the country by white people.
Madagaskar 2014
