Our Planet
Fishing for plastic
Coming to Ghana for a story on a children’s home in Sunyani, I had some time to spend on the beach as well. Enjoying my early morning walks, I was captivated by the stir of fishermen on the beach. Preparing their boats and nets, I saw them drinking their water from little plastic bags they can buy for as little as five cents. All that plastic though ends up in the ocean they use to earn their livelihood. What surprised me is that they weren’t surprised just mildly annoyed when their fishing nets would be filled with plastic later that day.
Jutters Geluk
By seeing the possibilities in beach combing for plastic, driftwood and all sorts of other materials, this foundation has creates working places for volunteers but also for people that otherwise would not be able to work for whatever reason. By doing so, they are working for a cleaner environment and at the same time finding the raw materials to create new products they sell to endorse the foundation. For Jutters Geluk I shot a reportage of their work, which was shown during a larger exhibition on their daily work.
Garbage in Kathmandu
Dopper is a Dutch conscious company creating reusable waterbottels. Their foundation asked me and 3 colleague storytellers to document stories of water in Nepal. As the country has the biggest reserve of fresh water per capita in the world, it’s quite shocking to realise that a large part of the Nepali still have no excess to clean drinking water. The subjects in our story wasn’t only water though. As the main goal of the company is to reduce the use of single use water bottles, the story of waste was equally important.