Asia

Three Angles on a Cyclone-Ravaged Primary School

August 17, 2008

Children congregate along the path to their blue tarpaulin-roofed temporary school in Kyone Sein Lay, a small village decimated in May by Cyclone Nargis, which claimed the lives of as many as 200000 people in Burma’s Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) Delta and…

Burma

A Burmese Government Ferry

August 5, 2008

A shore scene as passengers embark and disembark a three-deck government ferry in Kachin State. Seen here at the beginning of its two-day, thrice-weekly voyage, this ferry will travel down the Irrawaddy River from Bhamo in the country’s north to…

Burma

The View from the Jetty

August 1, 2008

Two Burmese fishermen peer out over the carcass of a trawler sunken in shallow water by Cyclone Nargis. Even three months later reminders of the disaster can be found everywhere.

Burma

Visions of Rangoon

July 27, 2008

Commerce and play: moments in Burma’s erstwhile capital Rangoon. Peanut vendor. Apples by candlelight. Cover search. Inflatable colour. Departure times. Eyes in the crowd. Ground rush. Incredulous. Indifferent. Price per handful. Colonial yellow. Median muslim. Wrong bus. Sule Pagoda in…

Japan