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MYANMAR

Photographs from three and a half months in Myanmar, bicycle touring and working in Peace Building, as the new democratic government took up its seats in April 2016. The images show everyday life through a period of major transition.
Monk hitching a lift Mandalay
In the shade of the banyan tree
Monk, Saigon
Boy reading newspaper, Mandalay
Goats on a train
Water buffalo and its young master
Novice nuns sweeping the street
Novice Monk, Hsipaw
Water buffalo cooling in the river
Monks crossing U Bein Bridge, dusk
Tea shop, Mandalay
Dawn mountain tops, Hpa An
Disapproving poster
Misted monastery conference, Hpa An
Pagoda with scaffolding
Novice monks under the Banyan tree
Dwelling, Inle Lake
Highway, Inle Lake
Dwelling, Inle Lake
Tea seller
Shan State rice noodles drying
Noodle maker
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Rural Shan State
Potato planting
Sewing stripes
Planting potatoes
Young ploughman with earphones
Precarious path
Harvest in the paddy fields
Paddy fields with buffalo
Harvesting rice
Grandfather and shop owner
Woman from the Pa'O ethnic group
Steps up to the temple
Cooking for the monks
Monk underwear
early evening football in monastery
Moth on robes
A friend
Typical meal, Shan State
Fisherman, Inle Lake
Dwelling, Inle Lake
Highway, Inle Lake
Getting around, Inle Lake
Fishing at dusk, Inle Lake
Inle Lake at dusk
Watching the world go by, Inle Lake
Inle Lake neighbourhood
Birdseye boat
Rural Shan State
Monastery donations being counted
My companion up a long hill
Farming Family, Shan State
Pineapple season
Market, Myitkyina, Kachin State
Market, Myitkyina, Kachin State
Market, Myitkyina, Kachin State
Market, Myitkyina, Kachin State
Young man from Ta'ang ethnic group
Weaving walls
Ancient Banyan tree
Bagan sunrise with goats
Monk at Shwedagon Pagoda
Off piste in Bagan
Dusty Bagan
Climbing  Pagodas, Bagan

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