This Indian Photographer Won Getty Grant of $10,000 For His End Of The Time Photographs

An Indian Photographer, Ronny Sen, is one of the three winners of the second annual Getty Images Instagram grant. The grant which identifies the photographers who document stories from underrepresented communities around the world using Instagram.

His project titled “The End” covers the lives of people living in the town, Jharia in Jharkhand which has been the country’s only reserve of high-quality coal. There are a lot of problems that the people of Jharia have been facing due to living and working in a hazardous place like this.

Apart from all the harmful greenhouse gases and smoke, the people are living there with fire burning beneath their homes from past 100 years. Various attempts of controlling the fire and the atmosphere of this place have been made by the government, but none of them worked. While many have left the town for their own betterment, some are still living there because their livelihood depends on the coal mines and all they can do is adapt themselves to the surroundings.

The Instagram account on which the pictures have been posted, is aptly named “whatdoestheendoftimelooklike” as the pictures are nothing short of a resemblance to the post apocalypse time that our world might face someday.

Sen spent three months in Jharia in 2013-2014 and shot all the pictures and videos through his IPhone 5. The photographer covers each and every aspect of these coal mines and people living in or around them while giving a personal touch to his work through the captions.

The other two winners are Girma Berta of Ethiopia and Christian Rodriguez of Uruguay also won the grant.

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23 September 2016
Jyotsna Amla