STREDNÁ A VÝCHODNÁ EURÓPA
central & eastern europe

JAN BRYKCZYŃSKI

ZÁHRADNÍK
THE GARDENER

Projekt Záhradník (The Gardener) dokumentuje pestovanie ovocia a zeleniny v mestách na štyroch kontinentoch. Zameriava sa na činnosti (vrátane partizánskej povahy) v štvrtiach obývanými nízkopríjmovými skupinami v New Yorku, v Nairobi, vo Varšave a v Jerevane. Obyvatelia rozvíjajú svoju fantáziu, kreativitu a vynaliezavosť a využívajú všetky druhy recyklovaných materiálov na premenu voľných priestorov v ich okolí.

Tento projekt možno chápať ako futuristickú víziu našej planéty, kde väčšina obyvateľstva už žije v mestách. Vzhľadom na partizánsky charakter niektorých zdokumentovaných poľnohospodárskych činností ju možno interpretovať aj ako záznam prejavov globálneho hnutia odporu.

 

The Gardener project documents urban fruit and vegetable cultivation across four continents. It focuses on activities – some of them guerrilla – in low-income neighbourhoods in New York, Nairobi, Warsaw, and Yerevan. The inhabitants draw on their imagination, creativity, and ingenuity, using all kinds of recycled materials to transform available spaces around them.

This project can be read as a futuristic vision of our planet, where the majority of the population already lives in cities. Owing to the guerrilla nature of some of the documented farming activities, it can also be interpreted as a record of manifestations of a global resistance movement.

 

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The Gardener / Nairobi, Kenya / Garden’s fences in the slum of Mathare. / 08.2013 Farming in Nairobi plays a very important role in households of many families. For most of them it provides the fresh vegetables – a source of daily need for vitamins. For some it becomes source of income and a way of life. Specially the vulnerable community of numerous Nairobi slums like Kibera and Mathare get more and more involved in gardening activities seeing it as an opportunity. They arrange the little gardens on every available peace of land, that is never their property and as all other structures in the slum has a very temporary construction. Urban farming has a long established tradition in history of human beings. In the times of prosperity it is regarded more as leisure activity. It develops and intensifies in times of food crisis. Today the healthy food shortages become a global problem. It touches low-income communities of both developing and developed world. The city dwellers uses all kind of reused materials in order to build the farming sights. They arrange the little peaces of land available to them according to their creativity and imagination creating the modern urban gardens. The story on urban farming in Nairobi is a part of The Gardener project - a winning commission of the Syngenta Photography Award 2013. The photographs of urban gardens were taken by Jan Brykczynski thought 2013 and 2014 in New York, Nairobi, Warsaw and Yerevan. The Gardener is also a book published in 2015 by Dewi Lewis Publishing.