The ‘Waste Workers of Bahia’ series has been selected for the São Paulo Photography Festival! Thank you @festfotosaopaulo and @joaokulcsar for elevating the work of these dedicated humans. This project examines environmental collapse through the eyes of @grupo.gap - where trash is not an abstract concept, but a daily reality. The images will be exhibited alongside some amazing photographers at the festival at @unibescultural on 23 and 24 May.
Minha série ‘Trabalhadores da Limpeza da Bahia’ foi selecionada para o Festival de Fotografia de São Paulo. Agradeço por valorizarem o trabalho dessas pessoas dedicadas. Este projeto examina o colapso ambiental sob a perspectiva do Grupo Ambientalistas de Palmeiras – onde o lixo não é um conceito abstrato, mas uma realidade cotidiana. As imagens serão exibidas ao lado de trabalhos de fotógrafos incríveis no festival nos días 23 e 24 de Maio 💚
@grupo.gap@fantasiasreciclaveis
📸 Registros incríveis de @dyduch ✨
As fantasias recicláveis ganham novos olhares através da arte e da sensibilidade no olhar de Amy. Cada detalhe carrega história, transformação e consciência ambiental
Essas imagens também fazem parte da construção do nosso Festival de Fantasias Recicláveis, que vem aí fortalecendo a cultura, a sustentabilidade e a criatividade da nossa comunidade 💚
#FantasiasReciclaveis #ArteSustentavel #FestivalCultural #EducacaoAmbiental #CulturaViva Sustentabilidade
Dirty Business (Channel 4) is a potent reminder of the blatant disregard of an industry that has normalised pumping raw sewage into our rivers.
Polluted beaches. Contaminated waterways. Dying wildlife. People.
Water companies claim this only happens during heavy rainfall when sewers overflow.
I was invited to explore this issue through a film commission for @designmuseum working with @atjuliaking and @surfersagainstsewage Julia is a total genius. The project was part of a research programme that asked: What if sewage infrastructure served the public, instead of polluting the places we swim and walk?
Julia’s proposal reimagines overflow systems that eliminate discharges while transforming infrastructure into public landscapes, with gardens, tidal pools and spaces for people to gather.
The four films and accompanying artwork were presented as part of The Design Museum’s wider exhibition’ Future Observatory’, exploring how design and innovation can shape a more sustainable future.
Shot along the Kent coast with my lovely crew @marinafusella and @ibiwunmibalogun
Artwork by @sabbakhanart
#design #research #film #environmental #documentary
Create a deficit; a need for the new. Something to fill them up. Build a status based around money and success. Tell them they’ll be happier if they have more. Distract them. Commodify their attention. Mine it. Get them to buy things. Design a throw-away society, and engineer a waste system that remains unseen.
Burn it, bury it, export it.
The illusion of disposal, they’ll fall for it. The cost of convenience. Keep it quiet. Then, the last move… blame them. They need to be more responsible. Tell them to stop using plastic straws. Make them buy ‘progress’. Sell them refillable water bottles. Rinse and repeat.
They move like a travelling circus. Carnaval. Where costume and satire confronts power. A public ritual. Turning trash into spectacle. In a land defined by extraction.
“Que viagem” “What a trip” - they tell me
Teá. He told me that after fleeing home as a child, he slept under the open sky, the moon his only blanket.
Today he fights forest fires that sweep through Chapada’s ancient valley.
And every day he works at Grupo Ambientalistas de Palmeiras (GAP) - Palmeiras Environmentalist Group - sorting through recyclable trash, and turning it into kooky masks and sculptures.
There’s a reverence in him.. a creative spark with a quiet care for the world.
