Some projects you just have to say yes to. “Under Our Skin” is one of them. For the Berlin-based NGO Ocean Now!, I took on an extensive photo and video production for their social media campaign as a voluntary contribution – a co-creative multimedia project that sheds light on the devastating effects of fast fashion and microplastics in the textile industry.
The project includes a portrait series featuring activists, actors, scientists and designers, covering five themes: oil extraction, overconsumption, microfibres, fashion colonialism and healing. For the fashion colonialism chapter, we even travelled to Ghana – to Accra and the notorious Kantamanto Market, one of the world’s largest secondhand textile markets, which bears the consequences of Western fashion consumption. There, we gave the people directly affected a voice through the camera.
