Humans of Ecovillages: a new photo project, series of portraits from eco-communities
Humans of Ecovillages is a photo project of portraits and interviews collected in ecovillages around the world.
It started in November 2018 at Ängsbacka course & festival center in Sweden with the photographer Ken Buslay from the idea of Marc Domingos – Ecovillage Europe Tour to share stories about the community living here. The intention is to create a nomadic exhibition to present it in cities and rural areas.
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Discover the first stories:
Humans of Ängsbacka #1: Cherie, 22 years old from Denmark
“I discovered the need to connect deeper to myself when I was living in the city, working with creativity and studying healing through acupuncture. My curiosity about how we connect with other human beings and with ourselves was awakened but I wasn’t able to go as deep with others as I wanted to. Everyone was busy with daily life routines and work. I felt that more than that was possible.
I began to travel and enjoyed the intensity of meeting people in a vibrant environment but I discovered that I mostly wanted to find a really deep, grounding, connecting community experience. I wanted to stay with it, not trying to catch every chance for an exciting adventure and then move on to the next, like I and all the travellers around me were doing. My own and other people‘s openness and happiness while traveling is a good and easy base to meet people on but it was leaving out a part of me that also needed to be expressed, accepted and loved. To build the trust and safety with others, that is needed to have these parts of myself contained as well, wasn’t possible when I was moving a lot…”
Humans of Ängsbacka #2: Eggy, 30 years old from Romania
“After quitting my job, I started traveling and got interested in the Ecovillage movement. I invested a lot of energy into the idea of starting one myself but I came to realize that I needed to live in one to see what I would find in that community experience. Then I came to Ängsbacka for three weeks while Volunteering through the EVS program for the GEN-Europe conference that was held here in 2017 and decided to stay on. Coming from a hotel management background I found that I could implement my knowledge and be supportive in this community. How to balance community life and business was what I was really curious about.
What made me stay was the sense of family or tribe that I felt. I opened parts of myself that I have never shown to this world because I have been too afraid. And I also get to see the others in their power, joy, anger or sadness as we are all being mirrors to each other. Experiencing that all these emotions are being held and supported by the community and being able to give back the support in their processes is wonderful…”
Keep tuned to read more stories from ecovillagers ici!
