When you have extracted everything from the world, what remains? — that is the question Ronny Sen has been trying to answer with his photographic exploration of Jharia, the coal mining town in east India, that has been literally burning for 100 years. The works were first published in a book titled End of Time in 2016 for which Sen went on to win Getty Images Instagram Grant. Now, 40 of those works, all shot on his iPhone, are being exhibited at Tarq gallery.

In 2014, the 31-year-old photographer was accompanying two French filmmakers who were shooting a documentary in Jharia. "I was assisting them with production, while taking photos on my phone, on the side. I did that for a month and then realised they could develop into a body of work," says Sen. He stayed in Jharia for three months making pictures. "We don't see landscapes in the vertical format, traditionally. Be it in photos or drawings, horizontal seems to be the way to go. When you see things from a phone, the whole world becomes vertical. And it was a new way for me to look at things."