During a winter residency in 2015 at Gdansk City Gallery, Poland, Kolkata-based photographer Ronny Sen was shown a collection of love letters. Written by a sailor during World War II, the letters were addressed to a married woman; the collection ended with two newspaper clippings — one stating how the sailor’s ship had been captured by Somali pirates, and another, dated four years later, on how the ship had been released. Did the sailor make it back home to Gdansk? What would he find there so many years later? Did he try to reunite with his lost love?

Untitled #8 from Ronny Sen’s series New World Chronicles in an Old World Colour