{"id":910,"date":"2022-06-08T12:31:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/?page_id=910"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:59:14","slug":"india-coal-mining","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/india-coal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"India &#8211; Coal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"gb-container gb-container-f57b84f4\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-d9cb7370 gb-headline-text\">India &#8211; Coal Mining<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-36e479a5 gb-headline-text\">2010<\/h4>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"gb-container gb-container-2b20a398\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-406d0a3e gb-headline-text\">The coal mines of Jharkhand, lie in one of India\u2019s poorest states, Bihar. Here, communities of freelance miners live on the hot, crusty soil atop coal seams which have caught fire, expelling a hellish methane vapour. Chris\u2019s photos documenting the lives of these miners and scavengers were shown in projection at the Vis Pour L\u2019Image photo festival, in Perpignan.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"gb-container gb-container-c04696b6\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery.kb-gallery-wrap-id-_7ebc4c-2a{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery .kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-_7ebc4c-2a{margin:-20px;}.kb-gallery-type-masonry.kb-gallery-id-_7ebc4c-2a .kadence-blocks-gallery-item{padding:20px;}.kb-gallery-id-_7ebc4c-2a .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;}.kb-gallery-id-_7ebc4c-2a .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner .kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption{background:linear-gradient( 0deg, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 0, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 100% );}.kb-gallery-caption-style-cover-hover.kb-gallery-id-_7ebc4c-2a 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Here, communities of freelance miners live on the hot, crusty soil atop coal seams which have caught fire, expelling a hellish methane vapour. Chris\u2019s photos documenting the lives of these miners and scavengers were shown in projection &#8230; <a title=\"India &#8211; Coal Mining\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/india-coal-mining\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about India &#8211; Coal Mining\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/910\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisstowers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}