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This second hand cloth market run by Gujarati Waghari tribals is bustling, colourful, urgent. It is one of the many
independent industries that plays a huge role in world trade, but whose impact is hardly known.
Manu Yadav
These women collect the waste flowers left to be thrown out each morning at Gazipur market, and turn them into paper,
cards and notebooks to sell. The photographer dedicates his images to women who make something out of nothing.
Siddharth Behl
The workers at this construction and demolition recycle firm in Burari are marginalised, and even rendered invisible, by
their mechanical surroundings.
Saumya Khandelwal
The Mayapuri Junkyard is a world where scrap overwhelms and creates startling juxtapositions. Here, the skill of making
do is the only thing that carries one through the disorder.
Shweta Pandey
These ragpickers are embedded, close-up, in the very medium with which they work old dailies. Cyanotype, a method of
printing blueprints, becomes the bridge between medium and subject. We are confronted with an ethical question: how apt
is art in capturing social reality?
Sreedeep
At an automobile junk yard, rituals and routines of rest and toil accompany a sense of community.
Monica Tiwari
The childrens play contrasts in tragic irony with their desolate landscape. The harsh setting is humanised, its injustices
exposed.
(Text written with inputs from Parthiv Shah, juror of the Neel Dongre Awards 2016, Aditya Arya
and the artists themselves.)
World of Recycle is open for view until April 11, 2016, at the India International Centre, New
Delhi, 11 am 7 pm.