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Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival
When houses and shacks collapse into cracks that open up in the hollowed-out ground beneath them, they have to live in ruins. Some crawl out of the coal mine entrances or scurry across smoking rubbish heaps like pitch-black shadows, dressed in rags, faces covered in black dust.
Photograph: Sourav Das
Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival
Sourav Das has documented the fate of children whose lives are little more than a struggle for survival in the harshest of conditions. No healthcare, playgrounds or classrooms.
Photograph: Sourav Das
Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival
When houses and shacks collapse into cracks that open up in the hollowed-out ground beneath them, they have to live in ruins. Some crawl out of the coal mine entrances or scurry across smoking rubbish heaps like pitch-black shadows, dressed in rags, faces covered in black dust.
Photograph: Sourav Das
Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival.
Hope in shadows.
Photograph: Sourav Das
Children in Jharia’s coal mines | Childhoods lost to smoke, fire and an endless struggle for survival.
Lessons in the dust.
Photograph: Sourav Das
This is Fou's bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
