EcoFestival 2010

Written by Alexandra / 08 June 2010 / Read Alexandra's latest blog entries.

On Saturday I visited the EcoFestival 2010 at the American Center in New Delhi. The event was hosted by the KRITI Team, a Public Trust self-described as “a development, research, praxis and communication team” (for more details, see their website: http://krititeam.blogspot.com). I wanted to speak with the women from Jan Sandesh (http://www.jansandesh.org), who make a variety of products – notebooks, boxes, picture frames, journals, and more – out of recycled paper (newspaper, cardboard and such). Here is a sampling of photographs of those products:

When I arrived, the women were just wrapping up a workshop for turning waste material into useful objects and art. In awkward beginner's Hindi, I struck up a conversation with them, and I was able to communicate that I wanted to film them explaining their work and to take photographs of some of the beautiful results of that work, which were displayed on tables outside the work-shopping room. The following video – for you Hindi bolne-valle out there – is of these women, talking enthusiastically about what they do:

The first twelve seconds or so are sideways. Mujhe afsos hai! It was my first time with the camera...