Heading off for a family holiday to Myanmar today (with a couple of photo ideas to recce!) Yangon – Kalaw – Inle Lake – Bagan – Mt Popa – Yangon. New Years Eve at a monastery! Excited. Back on Jan 10th. No idea where or when I might have internet or mobile phone access.
Returned last Saturday from an exhausting week in Phongsaly, partly this exhaustion was due to the rough and dusty roads and partly everything else involved with photographing people in a foreign land. For this part of my project I am looking for women still making and wearing their traditional clothing (or part of it) on a daily basis – in particular growing, processing and weaving cotton. For a start its not easy to find out the right time of year to be there and even at the ‘right’ time it varies so much from village to village.
As there was…
Tomorrow I’ll be heading off to Phongsaly Province for a week – flying on the scary small plane again and this time heading up to some remote villages by motorbike….
I’ll have no access to email but you can contact me on my Lao mobile: +856(0)2058 646100
Images from my series Järvenjää/Lakeice were published in Lonely Planet Traveller, December 2012.
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Just got back from another few days up North – this time in Luang Prabang and Oudomxay provinces. The first 3 days I spent with Emi Weir from Artisans du Mekong where we visited several Tai Lue villages that they buy their cotton products from to document the cotton production process. We are planning a small exhibition in their wonderful gallery in Ban Nong Xai – the area known locally as ‘the paper village’ just across the Nam Khan river from Luang Prabang.
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