Mandalay: a Night at the Market

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Naked fluorescent tubes give the night market — a crossroads for illicit Western books, clothing and music — a carnivalesque air from afar…

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…and from above.

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A taxicab streaks past a sunglasses stand.

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A trishaw driver awaits customers at a busy intersection.

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Footwear.

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Monks rifle through stacks of bibles, software manuals and sundry other oddities.

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Snack stand.

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Serving up a cup of ice water.
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A father-and-son vendor team pose beside passing ghosts.

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A vendor’s daughter naps while her mother closes shop for the night.

Author

Austin Andrews is a Vancouver-based photojournalist and occasional filmmaker with a penchant for finding the fantastic in the everyday. Contact him at austin [at] disposablewords [dot] net

4 comments

  • Where to hang all these inspiring pictures??? Our house is not big enough. Our budget isn’t big enough! Thanks for the joy you give us by taking these snapshots of life elsewhere in the world.

    Will’s mutter

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  • Awww… thanks Aukje! Fear not, though, ’cause we’re getting a stack of 4×6 prints done on the cheap of all our favourite shots before we leave Rangoon on the 13th, and if rumour holds true I hear you’re moving house this summer… hmmm…

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  • hey austin,

    oui, c’est vrai…we are moving….
    how much does it cost to develop pictures in rangoon?
    bon voyage to singapore!

    wilhelm’s mutter

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  • Well, I walked into a corner lab at 6:30 the night before we left — and half an hour before they closed — with a keydrive and cable, and ten minutes later walked out with an album of 27 prints. Paid $1.50. Not for each print. In total.

    I wish we’d made the time to do a few hundred while we were there!!!

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