Ronny Sen b. 1986
Jharia End of Time 5 (B) , 2014
Archival Pigment Print
(HSN Code: 97020000)
(HSN Code: 97020000)
9 x 6.75 inches
Ed 2/8 + 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. Studio International, Ronny Sen – interview: ‘The work is about the apocalypse in a certain way, where everything will go to the fire and the dust’, April 9, 2019https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/ronny-sen-interview-the-work-is-about-the-apocalypse-fire-and-dust-jharia
2. Art India, The loneliness of landscapes, December 2018
3. Design Fabric, The Seer And The Seen — Ronny Sen, November 30, 2017
http://www.tarq.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2017_11_30-Design-Fabric.pdf
4. Invisible Photographer Asia, Ronny Sen: What does the end of time look like?, December 1, 2016
https://invisiblephotographer.asia/2016/12/01/ronnysen-theend/
5. Scroll, Indian photographer Ronny Sen wins Getty Images Instagram Grant for his work on Jharia coal mines, September 21, 2016
https://scroll.in/latest/817133/indian-photographer-ronny-sen-wins-getty-images-instagram-grant-for-his-work-on-jharia-coal-mines
6. BBC, Photos of 100-year India coal fire win Getty Instagram award, September 21, 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37426714
7. Afternoon DC, Witnessing the apocalypse, September 7, 2018
http://www.tarq.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2018.09.7-The-Afternoon-DC.pdf
8. The Asian Age, Highway to hell, September 12,2018
https://www.asianage.com/life/more-features/120918/highway-to-hell.html
