NOVEMBER 2017 UPDATE: If interested in visting Myanmar, or engaging with it's people, please first read up about the country's ongoing persecution of the Rohingya.
'Noon in Rangoon'
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Street Photography in Burma's former capital, shot mainly around lunchtime.
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Yangon, Feb 2012. A customer browses through a street vendor's stall selling posters of General Aung San and his daughter, the newly liberated opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi - an act which would have led to arrest, for both, one year previously.
One local told us: It was about 8 months ago, 4 months after 'Our Lady' was released; it was during a local Buddhist festival so the streets were busy and lined with vendors, mostly selling Buddhist trinkets. Then one lady opened up a case and began pinning posters of Daw Suu around her stall. Onlookers watched on in fear and nobody dared go anywhere near her stall. A short while later some police passed by. To everyone's surprise they did nothing. With renewed courage one of the onlookers approached the stall and bought a poster. Everyone watched as the officers watched on. Yet the police still did nothing.
En masse, with trepidation dissolved, people descended the stall and the stock of posters was sold out in seconds.
The police still did nothing, and the people finally celebrated the lady's freedom.
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