The End

Ronny Sen

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Title: The End
Creator: Ronny Sen
Date: 2015
Photographer: Ronny Sen
About the series: What does the end of time look like? Jharia was once a green forest. Coal was discovered here in the late 18th century and by the beginning of the 19th century most of India’s mineral resource was mined here. As the Imperial Government, mercenaries and princely families wrestled for control on distribution, Jharia withstood their greed although eventually it became a successor to its own suffering. A fire underground has been burning since. The end of time is manifested with shards and fragments; random, scattered elements of human existence, and a community without a future – plunderers of coal who move from site to site with blasting mines. It is a survival in an apocalyptic landscape.
About the Photographer: Ronny Sen moved to Salt Lake City in Calcutta in the early 90’s with his family where he still lives and works. He represented India at the World Young Artists Event in Nottingham in 2012. The same year he was invited on an artist residency programme in Japan by the Japan Foundation. He made his first artist book Khmer Din in 2013. Some of his early photographic works were acquired for the permanent collection of Alkazi Collection of Photography. He is showing Khmer Din in a print exhibition at the Noorderlicht Festival this year.
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