MARTI in Paris

MARTI is a writer and photographer based in Paris and Pondicherry India. Also known as Marti Mueller, she is a Penguin Books author, a former staff journalist for Science Magazine, and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Le Monde Guardian Weekly. One of her books, This Earth of Ours, has a prologue by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

MARTI’s photos have been exhibited in London, Paris, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Phenom Penh, Madras, Singapore, Dacca, Katmandu, and Tokyo. The Times of India has called her: “the Salvador Dali of photography.” (See websites: www.martiphoto.com www.martiphotoburningm.com)
Her work is part of permanent collections, including the Musée du Louvre in Paris. She has been selected for the Singapore International Photography Festival, the Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography in Bangladesh, the National Arts Council Show in Nepal, les Rencontres Photographiques in Paris, the Angkor Watt Photo Festival in Cambodia, and a solo show at the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) in Phnom Penh.
MARTI has done photo workshops with Cambodian street kids (Canon, Apple, Epson-sponsored) and portrait work with Indian youth in Pondicherry, India (Alliance Française). She did a solo show at Drouot, the prestigious art auctioneer in Paris, for Paris Vach’Art, where the proceeds were given to charity to feed drought-stricken African children.
MARTI served as chair of the International Advisory Council for the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) for nearly a decade and was on the first Board of the Ecovillage Design Education (EDE). She is currently a United Nations representative to Geneva under the ECOSOC program.
She is a former professor at la Sorbonne (Université de Paris 1) and the French diplomatic school, the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (l’ENA). She has also worked on a UNESCO project at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)in Paris.
MARTI spent two years in Africa where she was a strong advocate against apartheid. She has also worked on projects to preserve planetary biodiversity. She was an official speaker at the 2005 Universal Exhibition in Japan and was honored as one of <A Hundred People Who Love the Earth>.
She co-founded Children and Trees, an environmental education project in India that produces environmental readers for children and communities on the importance of trees, land management, species diversity, and population balance. She is also a National Book Trust of India author and has environmental readers published in more than 40 different languages.
MARTI was the first keynote speaker at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) Windows of Hope, in Copenhagen. She is currently working with the Greenland Inuits on a project on climate change, which will showcase in Greenland in 2015.
She is the author of Indigo Spirit, Towards a Child-Friendly Planet, and a novel, Piano Man in 8 Interludes, based on true stories, both available on Amazon.com.

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