Just twenty minutes by metro from the center of New Delhi was the Kathputli Colony, a community of itinerant artists who in the early 1970s settled in the west of the city. What started as a makeshift settlement of puppeteers' tents from Rajasthan became a hotbed of artists with more than four thousand families from across the country.
India THE ARTISTS' VERTICAL SLUM Just twenty minutes by metro from the center of New Delhi was the Kathputli Colony, a community of itinerant artists who in the early 1970s settled in the west of the city. What started as a makeshift settlement of puppeteers' tents from Raja...
amalgama project Text: Laura Fornell Photo: Oscar Espinosa
India
THE ARTISTS' VERTICAL SLUM
Just twenty minutes by metro from the center of New Delhi was the Kathputli Colony, a community of itinerant artists who in the early 1970s settled in the west of the city. What started as a makeshift settlement of puppeteers' tents from Rajasthan became a hotbed of artists with more than four thousand families from across the country.
