Photojournalist Supratim Bhattacharjee documents the story of an unofficial coalminer and her family in the Dhanbad district in Jharkhand state, India. Her work was supported by the Joan Wakelin bursary

Beauty Devi, 34, an illegal coalminer, lost her husband in a mining accident who died while extracting coal from an abandoned tunnel. Devi has two sons: Vishal Kumar, 13, and Naman Kumar, 11.

Beauty Devi showing a picture of her husband, who died in an accident when the roof of an abandoned mine collapsed.

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