Daybreak in Myanmar

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Geoffrey Hiller

Myanmar in Southeast Asia is one of the least known places in the world, due to the military dictatorship that has isolated the country for the past sixty years. Now that the government is making the transition to democracy, the veil is slowly lifting, as are travel and economic sanctions. In Daybreak in Myanmar these images of a place once frozen in time are unique and timely.

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Photographer Geoffrey Hiller has been documenting the people of Burma since 1987 and has returned several times since the historic opening in 2011 to capture evidence of change, not only images of rallies for Aung San Suu Kyi, but the anticipation, hope and concerns of a nation forgotten by the world.

http://www.hillerphoto.com/#/daybreak-in-myanmar

No Way But Nauru

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Vlad Sokhin
Vlad Sokhin

The tiny island nation of Nauru, an eight-square-mile speck of land in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, was once one of the richest countries in the world, with a phosphate industry accounting for 80% of its economy. But around the year 2000, everything changed. The phosphate that had enabled many to live in affluence at home, buy houses abroad and send their children to expensive boarding schools was running out. The island needed to reinvent itself urgently. (by Vlad Sokhin)

http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2015/no-way-nauru/

Elephants in Myanmar

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Brent Lewin
Brent Lewin


The elephant is not only of great cultural and historical significance in Myanmar, but is also of major economic importance in the country’s nationalized timber industry. With teak export as the second most important source of foreign exchange, captive elephants working in Myanmar’s logging industry are also bringing about the destruction of their natural habitat at an alarming rate.

With the second highest population of wild elephants in Asia and the largest continuous area of natural habitat, Myanmar is a crucial battleground in the survival of the species. Myanmar is home to the largest number of captive elephants in the world and is the only country that continues to use elephants on a large scale in industry. The capture of elephants for use in the timber trade is acknowledged as the biggest threat to the survival of wild elephants.

http://www.brentlewin.com/#/elephants/forests—myanmar/MyLog01