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Background information
"'Centralia' exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. In war, truth is the first casualty and Centralia explores the unsteady relationship between reality and fiction and how our perceptions of reality and truth are manipulated. Combining tropes of documentary and fiction, art historian Emilia Terracciano, writing in 1000words magazine, has called Centralia a ‘hallucinatory reflection’ where an invisible conflict between a guerilla army, an indigenous people and the Indian state is associated with wider issues of environmental degradation. Such exploitation comes at a price: the transmogrification of violence into the de-facto language of politics. The voice of resistance is buried by alternate facts. Freedom is shrinking and what we say and who we are is being obscured." (© Dewi Lewis, 2020)
Additional information
Hardback without dust jacket, as published, 30 x 20 x 2 cm., 192 pages, 96 colour photos
- Winner 2020 Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award
Winner 2020 Singapore International Photo Festival Photobook Award National Geographic Explorer Award 2020
Shortlisted for the 2021 Deutsche Börse Award
Selected by 1000 words - best photobooks of 2020
About the Indian photographer, Poulomi BASU
Photo books by Poulomi BASU
- Photographer(s)
- Poulomi BASU (IND)
- Format
- Structured HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 20 x 30 x 2 cm., 192 pp., 96 color ills.
- Language(s)
- English
- Year of Release
- 2019
- Publisher
- Dewi Lewis, UK
- Print run details
- 1st print run, out of print