In September there was a special
photography exhibition in Citadines Art Gallery. Aurovilian photographer Marco
Saroldi took archive photos of the early days of Auroville by Dominique Darr
and matched them with photos he had taken recently.“It began with a project for Outreach Media”,
explains Marco. “I had taken photographs of people working joyfully in the new
Joy of Impermanence community, and I was immediately reminded of the spirit of
the original pioneers. So I selected about ten pictures of the pioneers from
the Auroville Archives and put them together with the Joy of Impermanence
photos, then published them on the Outreach Media website.”He knew that many early photographs had been
taken by Dominque Darr and these were archived in Citadines. He’d also seen
Olivier Barot’s new photographic book on Auroville which had been brought out
for the 50th anniversary, “So I wondered, what if I took the same photos today?
What would we see? How would the places change? And how would ...
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