Stills from Veronika Resslová: Our Old Folks Had Fields Here 2024

This publication is a selection of photographs and fragments of conversations with Delhi farmers from the years 2022 and 2023. It provides a space for those whose voices do not make it into the public media, which they do not trust anyway – they do not want their faces to be seen and their names to be published. But they are happy to be asked how they live.

Stills from Veronika Resslová: Our Old Folks Had Fields Here 2024

Improvised shacks lean against the concrete flood barrier that separates a narrow strip of fields from the Tibetan colony Majnu Ka Tilla. Sewage from factories and home sanitation systems, which people from the shacks have never had, runs directly into the Yamuna through open drains. The river flows quietly under the smog-shrouded sun. Dogs play and cows lie on the banks.

Stills from Veronika Resslová: Our Old Folks Had Fields Here 2024

People no longer remember when they came here. They don’t believe they have a choice, and have long since given up on the idea of a future. They cultivate the sandy soil mixed with rubbish by hand, not by machine. Then they sell the vegetables tainted with heavy metals and chemicals in the Delhi markets to them, whose waste is turning the river into a toxic zone. The effect finds itself back on the doorstep of the cause.

Veronika Resslová, Delhi, June 2023

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Author: Veronika Resslová Publisher: Ausdruck Books_Hybrid Publishing Platform ISBN: 978-80-908403-2-4 Language: Hindi, English Graphic design: Terezie Štindlová Year: 2024

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