"Here is a change for you. Africa today. Mechanization, industrialization. An african and a machine - and what a machine!. The new magic. The Magician - or the magician's apprentice - is allowed to take the controls, to see what he can do with the contraption, what he can make it do. What will it do to him?" From: Ed van der Elsken, 'Sweet Life', Amsterdam, De Bezige Bij 1966
'Ed van der Elsken traveled around the world for thirteen months in 1959-1960 with his wife Gerda. The photos during this trip were later published by Ed in his book 'Sweet life' (1966).