Abhishek Basu

Abhishek Basu is as a freelance photographer and works for various publishing houses on experimental storytelling techniques, book design, curation and multimedia. In 2017, he received a scholarship from burn magazine to attend a workshop in Puerto Rico with Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey. He is currently working on a book titled Ellipsis.

Industrial silence

A photo essay on India’s coal miners.

Nov 27, 2018

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