Young Designers '13

Diploma Project

Living Coast – Impact of Industrialisation along the Gujarat Shorelines

Keywords

Environment issues
Coastal communities
Industrialisation
Photographic documentary

Student

Mayur Kakreli

mayur.kakreli@gmail.com

Guide

Dr Deepak John Mathew

deepakj@nid.edu

Sponsor

Ford Foundation

Synopsis

Gujarat’s coast line, with its prominent trade routes and rich biodiversity plays a significant role in making the state a centre of commercial importance.

This photographic documentation was done with a specific purpose of exposing how massive industrial development has affected the environment and the socio-economic conditions of local communities in these regions, that is to say the large part of the benefit of the said development goes to the urban, more specifically the rich sections of society at the expense of local livelihood. The photographs with supporting text, portrays such stories focusing on the disruption of homogeneous relationship the locals have formed over the centuries with their environment with a view to create awareness in the target urban audience.