‘La ciudad de los Niños’ (The city of children) is the charity project by the Valencian photographer Toni Ródenas. It portrays the hard living conditions of children working in the Passor kilns. He knows this situation thanks to the work he has been doing to promote what the NGO Naya Nagar has implemented in India. The exhibition shows 20 50x70 cm black and white pictures and it links documentary and artistic photography through the artist’s view. He tries to reflect the powerful scenario of the kilns, whose power contrasts with the weak and cheerful children.
The photographer has been living with the Indian people who usually move to work hard in the production of mud bricks for the construction industry.
This exhibition’s aim is to spread the socially committed work of the NGO Naya Nagar and its counterparts in India: Don Bosco and Mera Pariwar. Alejandro Villar is the exhibition curator and can be visited until September 9 at La Nau’s Sala Oberta. According to Villar, ‘this exhibition shows a different view of the NGOs’ tasks because it merges art and the socially committed project.’
Toni Ródenas has specialized in socially committed art projects after his trips to different countries, published in his blog www.conmochila.com. He shows the activities of several NGOs in the developing world. This is the way he begins to collaborate with Naya Nagar and its counterparts in India.
Around 10 to 20 families move to work in the Passor kilns. There, they make the handcraftly made mud bricks and have their children breathing the noxious fumes and suffering the schorching sun. They have no clean water nor electricity.
Photographic project: Toni Ródenas
http://laciudaddelosninos.tonirodenas.com/
Last update: 12 de july de 2012 13:30.
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