BURMA 2007

I have visited Burma from October to December.

Most of the time I spent photographing in refugee camps, hospitals, humanitarian-aid projects and the military camps of the revolutionary ethnic forces on the Thai / Burma border. But I also travelled to the far north of Burma into the Kachin State, where I have not been before. The Kachin are Christians and so the view of churches in this mainly Buddhist country was very strange to me.

The colourful central market in Mandalay.

The book vendors in downtown Rangoon.

The Baptist Church in Myitkyina, Kachin State. Christian churches are an unusual sight in Buddhist Burma, but most Kachin are Christians.

A young Kayan woman from Burma in her village near Mae Hongson, Thailand.

The revolutionary Shan State Army (SSA) on their Shan New Year parade at their headquarters in Loi Tai Leng.

A Shan soldier on his position at the frontline in Loi Tai Leng.

Parade for the New Year ceremonies by the SSA in Loi Tai Leng.

For the New Year celebrations, the SSA soldiers receive a special menue of boiled meat.

H.I.V. patient in the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand.