BLACK HELL


  • Photographer
    VALERIE LEONARD
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    VALERIE LEONARD PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Date of Photograph
    APRIL 2016
  • Technical Info
    NIKON 3DS

The State of Jharkhand, in the northeast of India, became a hell on Earth. The open-cast coal mines there took over the forest. The extraction of the "black diamond", destroyed the fauna, the flora, and upset the topography. For more than eighty years, a huge underground fire is burning exhaling enormous quantities of carbon dioxide into the air. All efforts to put out this fire have been in vain. In the suffocating hostility of this environment people work despite the many diseases due to the toxic atmosphere. The lucky ones, for a dollar a day, carry the coal in wicker baskets and load the trucks. But the majority of them, before dawn, illegally collect coal to sell it at the black market. With about 300 million Indians living without electricity, and faced with a desperate shortage of power, the Indian government plans to double its state-run coal production by 2020.

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