Jugaad Photo Exhibition — Open Call Vol.2

Vol.1 · Jan 2026 · Onomichi

Different streets.
Same idea.

India, China, Germany, the USA, South Africa. Silkscreened onto Indian cotton and hung in a small room overlooking the sea.

Not sure if it counts?

What counts
as jugaad.

A broken thing repaired in a clever way. An object doing a job it was never made for. Here's what people sent us — yours doesn't have to look like art. It has to be resourceful.

A Pepsi bottle used as an incense burner

01Pepsi bottle → incense burner · Bill Aitchison

Rigging a market awning from scaffolding

02Rigging the market awning

An umbrella lashed to a bike in the rain

03Umbrella lashed to a bike

04Umbrella as a carry strap

A fan wired to the rafters under a corrugated roof

05Fan wired to the rafters

A toothpaste box used to hold cables on a wall

06Toothpaste box → cable hook

A festival cart loaded with goods on the street

07Festival cart, fully loaded

A zip-strap hung down steep stairs as a handrail

Gripping the zip while descending the steep stairs

08A zip for a handrail down steep stairs — it won't snap pulled straight down

A spoon used as a spindle for a cable roll

09A spoon for the cable roll

10Power socket → phone rest

11A parked bike for a bed

A tarp patched over rubble in the street

12Tarp patched over rubble

13Two scooters, one tow

A motor rigged into a barred workshop window

14Motor rigged in a window

Marigold garlands strung up in the street

15Strung up with marigolds

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you found.

₹10,000 in prizes. Your photo, silkscreened onto cotton, hung in a small town in Japan.

Submissions close November 30, 2026

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Not sure if it counts? Jugaad is an improvised fix using whatever's at hand — a broken thing repaired in a clever way, an object repurposed for something it was never meant to do.

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