“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” – Patti Smith

stories for the us-based independent publication makeshift – a field guide to hidden creativity (2014-2016)

Makeshift was part of a new generation of publications committed to content, form and society. Makeshift talked about people in underdeveloped countries and how to find creative solutions when the possibilities are limited.

I did multiple stories for Makeshift on such interesting topics like:

Marriage Detectives in India

Mobile phone parts and rubbery
earbuds serve as low-cost hearing
aids for India’s rural resident
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Artist Meera Sethi’s take on
a classic Indian poster redefines
what it means to be a man

One-litre farming: One farmer’s free invention could
produce India’s calories using a
tiny fraction of the water