Over twenty years after Apartheid ended in South Africa, its echo still can be heard throughout the country. The structures established decades ago continue to impact everyday life of people in the townships. Many black people still have to move up to 40 km every day into town to get to work, after their grandparents have been moved out of Johannesburg to the townships of Soweto with force to make the city a white area. While the state’s infrastructure like the metrorail break under the amount of people and crime, private minibus taxis have become one of the booming economy branches in the country.

This series of set up photographs explores the elaborate hand signs used in Johannesburg to stop a taxi going in the right direction, an hommage to what Jane Jacobs calls the “ballet of the sidewalk”.