Full Shade / Half Sun

In 2003, the tropical dry forest of Tamil Nadu in India, looked like a desert. In 2003, Sadhana Forest—the smaller community based within Auroville, which was founded in the 1960s—was established by an Israeli man who arrived with a mission to take care of the land through reforestation. Alongside their reforestation efforts, they are also an experiment in communal living, veganism, and unschooling.The project avoids classical journalism and instead attempts to get into the mindset of the back-to-the-land movement, and to bring up metaphors and questions about the ways in which we find meaning in our relationship to our environment. During the course of the workshop, we worked on creating a sequence for a book dummy.

Néha Hirve

Néha Hirve (b. 1992) is a Stockholm-based photographer and filmmaker interested in man’s relationship to the natural environment. She has been published in the New York Times, National Geographic, and Tidnignen ETC, and was recently a recipient of the Women Photograph grant.