In Mawlamyine
I’m a big fan of sleepy, gently crumbling riverside towns in south-east Asia. Kompong Cham and Kratie in Cambodia, Savannakhet in Laos – these are some of the places that I’ve most enjoyed visiting over the last few years. To that list, I can now add Mawlamyine in south-eastern Myanmar. It’s not a place with any really jaw-dropping sights – the town itself is the attraction, with its weathered colonial-era buildings, its pagodas, mosques and churches, its dockside market and its friendly, curious people.
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12 Responses to “In Mawlamyine”
Amazing photos! Really like those portraits
Great captures. Very nice style
Great photos!
Great series!
(The first gives me the impression that you ‘model’ is trying to blend into the background – it might be an interesting experiment to drop it to black and white so the colour doesn’t provide a demarcation element?)
Thank you. I did look at that first picture in black and white, but it looked it looked a bit like a head that was floating in space – not really the look that I was after!
🙂 🙂
Wonderful series of images. You’ve really captures the sense of the communities. Thank you for opening the window so we could get a peek.
I always love your close up portraits, the give me a real sense of the personality of that person. Wonderful photography work!!!!
Very nice series. Do you know what they paint their faces with and why? Thank you.
Thank you. It’s called ‘thanaka’, and it’s a kind of natural sunscreen and cosmetic, made from tree bark.
I love these photos so much. They have so much life! I would love to see a collection of your shots like these in a book. We don’t get to see this side of other cultures enough.
Thanks! I have made a couple of self-published photobooks, which are available as e-books or as hard copies, and are selling like cold, stale cakes. Click on ‘book’ at the top of the page if you’re interested…