there is no such place as ‘away’
When clothing leaves our lives, it continues to circle the globe. Second hand clothing is a billion dollar industry that employs millions of people.
The short documentary,
Unravel: The final resting place of your cast-off clothing looks into the lives of garment recyclers in India. These women create yarn from the huge bales of clothes that come from the west. With little exposure to this culture, they rely on their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs to create an an intriguing perspective on the people and places their origin.
Unravel: The final resting place of your cast-off clothing looks into the lives of garment recyclers in India. These women create yarn from the huge bales of clothes that come from the west. With little exposure to this culture, they rely on their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs to create an an intriguing perspective on the people and places their origin.
Dead White Man’s Clothes, is a multimedia research project exploring the secondhand clothing trade in the context of Accra, Ghana. This project is coordinated by The OR Foundation, a USA-based non-profit co-founded by Liz Ricketts and Branson
Skinner. After observing secondhand clothing in the streets and markets of Accra for years, they began their research in 2016 to learn more about how the “used” clothing trade functions and to better understand the environmental, social and economic implications of this industry in Ghana
Skinner. After observing secondhand clothing in the streets and markets of Accra for years, they began their research in 2016 to learn more about how the “used” clothing trade functions and to better understand the environmental, social and economic implications of this industry in Ghana
