Fire to Fire From Dawn to Dusk: North East India’s Vanishing Way of Life

Fire to Fire From Dawn to Dusk: North East India’s Vanishing Way of Life

An exhibition of photographs by Shyamal Datta from Shillong

 

Preview on Tuesday, 11 September 2018 at 18:30

 

In this collection, the metaphoric day starts when the family wakes up at dawn and lights the central fire at the hearth. Food is cooked and eaten after which all members leave the house for the hills to tend to their crops. At sunset, the family returns and light up their hearth once again to eat, drink and be happy together, before the cycle starts again the following day. An exhibition that visually records a fascinating, unique way of life for posterity – a way that is confronting the contradictions of modernity