Ronny Sen b. 1986
Jharia End of Time 8, 2014
Archival Pigment Print
(HSN Code: 97020000)
(HSN Code: 97020000)
9 x 6.75 inches
Ed 1/8 + 1 A/P
Copyright Ronny Sen 2014
Ronny Sen continues to highlight his photographic engagement with the contemporary landscape. He focuses his lens on, a coal mining town in Jharkhand, where he looks deeply into the current...
Ronny Sen continues to highlight his photographic engagement with the contemporary landscape. He focuses his lens on, a coal mining town in Jharkhand, where he looks deeply into the current issue of environmental degradation that has made life unliveable in some parts of the world. He captures images of the coal fire that has been burning in Jharia since the early 1900s, as well as unethical and unsustainable mining practices that continue in the area till today. The result of this is a set of entirely surreal images that are simultaneously morbid and immeasurably beautiful.
Exhibitions
Fire Continuum, TARQ, Mumbai, 2018This Burning Land Belongs To You, Swiss Cottage Gallery, London, U.K. (Presented by TARQ for Camden Kala, UK/India Year of Culture, 2017
Literature
1. Invisible Photographer Asia, Ronny Sen: What does the end of time look like?, December 1, 2016https://invisiblephotographer.asia/2016/12/01/ronnysen-theend/
2. BBC, Photos of 100-year India coal fire win Getty Instagram award, September 21, 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37426714
3. Domus India, A way into the future: Optics of cruelty, October 2018
http://www.tarq.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2018_10_00-Domus-1.pdf