{"id":73339,"date":"2025-08-10T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/10\/trucks-and-tuks-decorated-vehicles-of-south-asia-in-pictures"},"modified":"2025-08-10T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:00:15","slug":"trucks-and-tuks-decorated-vehicles-of-south-asia-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73339","title":{"rendered":"Trucks and Tuks: Decorated Vehicles of South Asia \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Christopher Herwig has travelled 10,000km in his quest to record this overlooked art form. He has documented the characteristics of each region \u2013 from Pakistan in the north to Sri Lanka in the south. Sadly, as a result of government directives, alongside the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced decorations, this vibrant cultural expression is in decline, making this project all the more vital<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fuel-design.com\/publishing\/trucks-and-tuks\/\">Trucks and Tuks: Decorated Vehicles of South Asia is available for pre-order from FUEL publishing<\/a>. Available late August<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/10\/trucks-and-tuks-decorated-vehicles-of-south-asia-in-pictures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Christopher Herwig has travelled 10,000km in his quest to record this overlooked art form. He has documented the characteristics of each region \u2013 from Pakistan in the north to Sri Lanka in the south. Sadly, as a result of government direct&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,327,62,241,60,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-bangladesh","category-india","category-nepal","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73340,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73339\/revisions\/73340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}