Photographs and other images of Burma

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Description: "In this section you will find photographs of political prisoners currently serving sentences in Burmese prisons, photographs of prisons and prisoners working in Labour Camps or on constuction projects throughout Burma. We have also included illustrations of poun-zan, which are the positions used by the Burmese prison system to de-humanize prisoners... Learning Behind Bars: Political prisoners are not allowed to read or write while in prison. Despite their jailers? efforts to shackle their minds, Burmese political prisoners remain determined to learn even under the worst of circumstances. View Photographs - Read Article 1 - Read Article 2... There are 38 major prisons currently in Burma. Over 20 house political prisoners, even a number of Monks included. View Photos... If you are a photographer with images that you may think will be of value to AAPP, please send them as jpeg attachments to AAPP...
Source/publisher: Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) - AAPPB
Date of entry/update: 2003-07-07
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Lots of photos of Burma by Japanese photographer Goto Osami, plus photos of colonial Burma (unfortunately undated) by Shiro Shimamura and Keizo Okuma, some of which are accompanied by contemporary parallel photos by Goto Osami.
Creator/author: Goto Osami
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Japanese, English
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Description: Photos of Burma, notably good trekking photos from Kachin State (mountains, clouds, jungle, people, portraits, villages, streams). Some good sunsets. Parallel trek in Nepal.
Creator/author: Henk de Jong
Date of entry/update: 2003-07-27
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "A book documenting life inside Burma from 1987 through the recent historic transition by an award-winning photographer....I am asking for your help to self-publish a book. As some of you know, with changes in digital technology the publishing industry is going through a transformation, and publishers are reluctant to print books by even the most accomplished photographers. A professional team is in place. Editors/designers Natasha Chandani and Lana Cavar have begun working with me to produce a high-quality 192-page book of color photographs in a 7 x 9 1/2 inch format. Essays by prominent Burmese writer Dr. Ma Thida, a human rights activist and herself a former political prisoner, and also journalist Francis Wade will accompany the images to explain the context in Burma today. The book will be in print by April 2014. Please help to make this project a reality. Your donation will pay for the costs of producing and printing a beautiful book. Among the rewards are limited edition prints and a signed copy of the book..."
Creator/author: Geoffrey Hiller
Source/publisher: Geoffrey Hiller
2013-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2013-09-23
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Can Stock Photo offers over 20 million professional royalty free stock photos at prices you can afford. Our high-quality images start at just $1.00, and our generous license agreement gives you the flexibility you need. We offer free weekly downloads with tens of thousands of new images added every week. We also have over 8,000 Burma-related images and stock photos!"
Source/publisher: Can Stock Photo
Date of entry/update: 2015-06-16
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: One of the best online Burma photo galleries. High quality pictures of different parts and aspects of Burma by a sensitive photographer -- daily life, buildings, cabbages, landscapes, portraits, buddhas, objects...
Creator/author: Alan Sievers
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Includes many fine images of the Karen
Source/publisher: Dang Ngo Photography
Date of entry/update: 2004-08-23
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Language: English
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Description: Contains several articles on Burma, including reports on missions of the Freeburma Rangers. More than 20 photo essays of civil war victims, destroyed villages, forced labour, relief missions etc.
Source/publisher: Dictator Watch
Date of entry/update: 2003-07-11
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: This collection of photos contains several hundred of Burma, mostly from WWII. Search for "Burma" within the different collections... The Hensley Photo Library: "This collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley.(103 images of Burma); Government College of Arts and Crafts (Chennai) "The Museum of Contemporary Art, housed within the Government College of Arts and Crafts, has a photograph collection dated from the mid 1800s. The subjects of these photographs range from the hill tribes of Niligiris to pagodas and monuments of the Madras Presidency to guns and antiques from Fort St. George."(42 images of Burma); Keagle Photograph Library - "This collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Robert Keagle."(42 images of Burma); Bond Photograph Library - This collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Frank Bond (142 images of Burma).
Source/publisher: Digital South Asia Library
Date of entry/update: 2008-04-17
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Language: English
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Description: "James Mackay, a documentary photographer based in South East Asia and the UK specialises in Burma, both in-country and around political and human rights issues along it?s borders and those in exile around the world. Below are a selection of photo-stories providing a glimpse at life in the darkness of the Golden Land. In 1962 a military coup saw Burma, an isolated Buddhist country in South-East Asia, come under the power of one of the world?s most brutal regimes. For the past five decades, the country has been ruled through fear and oppression that has seen thousands of people arrested, tortured and given long prison sentences for openly expressing their beliefs as well as crimes against humanity being committed in the country?s ethnic regions. More than a million people have been left internally displaced and over 150,000 now live as stateless refugees on Burma?s numerous borders. Whilst the democracy movement once again gathers pace under the renewed leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, the people of Burma remain shackled by an authoritarian regime and are left to suffer silently in the hope that one day true freedom will be theirs.".....Special focus on Burma?s political prisoners.....Galleries include: AUNG SAN SUU KYI: AT HOME WITH... THE DARKNESS WE SEE... ABHAYA: BURMA?S FEARLESSNESS... BURMA?S DEFIANCE... THE PRISON WITHOUT BARS... BURMA VJ: INSIDE THE SECRET NETWORK... THIS IS ANOTHER PLACE... NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN... BURMA?S POLITICAL PRISONERS... SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN... ORDINARY PLACES: EXTRAORDINARY LIVES... FLEEING THE FRONTLINE... KNLA: A REVOLUTION TO THE END
Creator/author: James Mackay,
Source/publisher: Enigma Images
Date of entry/update: 2011-11-23
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: More than 18,000 images of Burma/Myanmar (photos and footage). Search for Burma or Myanmar
Source/publisher: Getty Images
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Photos from Burma trips between 1997 and 2004... "This site is a non political site. This site is ment to give an impression of sights you might visit when travelling as a F.I.T.(foreign independent traveller)... The routes we took during the four visits are roughly drawn here. Train, private driver, boat, plane and bus were used during the various trips..."
Date of entry/update: 2004-10-04
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Language: English
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Description: Archive of several thousand photos published by KHRG from 1993. They document the human rights situation throughout the Eastern areas of Burma. Subjects include: forced labour; forced relocations & restrictions; attacks on villages & village destruction; detention & torture; shootings & killings; flight & displacement; landmines; soldiers; children; extortion; internal displacement and refugees; SPDC deserters...
Source/publisher: Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Pin-ups and pagodas. Hard-edged calendar kitsch of the Myanmar.com school. An obtrusive, multiculoured "Myanmar Image Gallery" floating in the sky succeeds in degrading the finest photographs of the Pagan pagodas. Now with muzak.
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: 1375 images from Burma/Myanmar. About 30% of them do not appear unless you click on "PRICE/INFO.
Source/publisher: Photosearch
Date of entry/update: 2006-06-28
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Exploring Myanmar (formerly Burma)
Source/publisher: SPDC
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Includes some good architectural shots "Mingalaba! In the Myanmar Photo Gallery you'll find a selection of pictures of Myanmar (Burma) taken on a visit in December 2002, at the beginning of the dry season. Starting from Yangon, we travelled by car across lower Myanmar, visiting Bago and Kyaiktiyo before heading north, towards Central Myanmar where we visited Lake Inle, Mandalay and Bagan before returning to Yangon. A detailed travelogue is available..."
Creator/author: Alfred Molon
Source/publisher: Shirly Cang and Alfred Molon Homepage
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: 4000+ Myanmar Photo's in 35 Categories --- Myanmar Online Museum * Royal Regalia * Kyauktaw Mahamuni Museum * Naga Tribal Museum * Buddha Images * Myanmar Stamps * Myanmar Coins Wonders o Largest Gilded Building o Largest Ringing Bell o Largest Bell Underwater o Largest Reclining Buddha Image o Largest Stone Book o Largest Gold Buddha Image o Largest Stone Buddha Image o Strange Buddha Images ...etc.
Source/publisher: myanmars.net
Date of entry/update: 2008-11-30
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Source/publisher: World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 > Library of Congress
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Mixed bag. A few interesting sepia photos
Source/publisher: Britain-Burma Society
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: 840,000 results (April 2010) for a Google search for stock photography sites Burma OR Myanmar (257,000, January 2009, 20,000,000 June 2015)
Source/publisher: Google
2010-04-10
Date of entry/update: 2010-04-10
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Lots of photos somewhere on the site. Search
Source/publisher: .odyssei.com
Date of entry/update: 2008-11-30
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Description: 6,912 files in 15 albums and 4 categories with 0 comments viewed 159,740 times Largely photos of Burma
Source/publisher: Yuzo UDA
Date of entry/update: 2015-10-12
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Japanese
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Description: Good photos of Burma and other parts of the world
Creator/author: Geoffrey Hiller
Source/publisher: Geoffrey Hiller/ Photographer
Date of entry/update: 2013-09-23
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: 15 images of landmine victims..."Myanmar, or Burma, is home to one of the world?s longest running civil wars. Conflict has occurred since the country gained independence in 1947. Mine warfare has been a feature of the conflict throughout that time. Mines are thought to be used by all parties to the conflict. No one knows how many people have been killed or maimed by mines. This photo exhibit provides a glimpse into the lives of a few of those who survived their mine injury and now live tenuous lives near the border with Thailand..." This exhibition has been co-sponsored by DanChurchAid (DCA) and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
Creator/author: Photo: Giovanni Diffidenti; Art installation: Laura Morelli; Text: Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
Source/publisher: Giovanni Diffidenti, Photojournalist
2011-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2012-05-13
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Forced relocation and displacement... Life under military control... Convict porters... Children in armed conflict... Soldiers, army camps and weapons... Land and livelihoods... Map Room ..... "The second installment of KHRG?s Photo Gallery 2010 includes 95 still photographs selected from images taken by KHRG field researchers since December 2009. Of these photos, 50 were taken between December 2009 and March 2010, and 45 were taken between April and July 2010. Photos were taken in Papun, Nyaunglebin, Toungoo, Mergui/Tavoy, Pa?an and Dooplaya districts of locally-defined Karen State, as well as at sites on the Thai side of the Thailand ? Burma border. This edition of the gallery has been divided into six subsections: Establishment of Border Guard Forces and strategic displacement; Involuntary repatriation of refugees in Tha Song Yang District; Surviving with dignity beyond military control; Life under military control; Livelihoods under strain; Landmines; and Children in armed conflict. KHRG is committed to documenting not just the way that villagers are victims of human rights abuses, but also the myriad protection strategies they employ to resist abuse as well as maintain cultural practices and continuity in their lives. Consequently, all sections of this report include a wide variety of photo selections, not just photos of villagers as victims. Since the last photo gallery was released, KHRG has continued to document patterns of abuse consistent with those presented in earlier editions. Villagers already under government control continue to report abuses related to attempts by the Tatmadaw, Burma?s state army, and non-state armed groups (NSAGs) holding ceasefire agreements with the Tatmadaw such as the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) to consolidate control and support ongoing militarization of the countryside. Elsewhere, Tatmadaw forces continue efforts to expand control of territory and civilian populations, particularly in upland areas in northern Karen State. Though the Northern Karen State Offensive ended in 2008, military attacks on villagers in hiding, and their means of survival, nonetheless continue.[2] According to the most recent figures, more than 70,000 villagers remain displaced and in hiding in northern Karen areas, of whom more than 28,000 have been displaced or re-displaced within the past year;[3] between August 2009 and July 2010, at least 95 more villages were destroyed, relocated or abandoned.[4] In 2010, disagreements between the Tatmadaw and some sections of the DKBA over the latter?s absorption into the Tatmadaw as Border Guard battalions also increased insecurity for villagers in Pa?an and Dooplaya districts in central Karen State, as civilians worried that open conflict would return to the region.[5] Despite the many challenges to civilian security and livelihoods, however, villagers in eastern Burma continue to show bravery and resilience, employing a range of strategies to protect their families and communities from abuse and the effects of abuse. Photos included in the Photo Gallery are identified with alphanumeric characters shown below each image. To view the first instalment of KHRG?s Photo Gallery 2010, click here."
Source/publisher: Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
2011-02-24
Date of entry/update: 2012-02-26
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: In May 2010, Human Rights Watch took leading portrait photographer Platon to the Thai-Burmese border to photograph former political prisoners, civil society leaders, ethnic minority group members, journalists and other people in exile from their country, Burma. All of those in this portrait portfolio have experienced human rights abuses in Burma and sought refuge in Thailand. Instead of being demoralized and defeated, they have united and use their shared experiences to educate and work for a better future for all of Burma?s people. Although forced into exile, they have not been silenced.
Creator/author: Platon
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 12
2010-12-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-12-26
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: 96 bklack and white photos of Burma, 1824-1948
Creator/author: P. Klier
Source/publisher: Colgate University digital library
1948-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-09-19
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Photos of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on tour -- in Arakan, in Chin State, in Magwe and in Mandalay. More on the ALTSEAN website (click on Alternate URL)
Source/publisher: Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN)
2003-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2010-07-04
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Photos of: Forced Labor; Internally Displaced People and Forced Relocation; Rights of the Child; Situation of Refugees; Situation of Migrant Workers from Burma.
Source/publisher: Human Rights Yearbook Burma (Myanmar) 2000 (NCGUB Human Rights Documentation Unit)
2001-10-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: High quality engaged photography and audio-visual presentation. A complex, compassionate, moving, poetic, meditative, slow-moving photo portrayal of people in contemporary Burma. On-screen and audio commentary by victims of military rule and on-screen quotations/commentary from Aung San Suu Kyi, Timothy Garton Ash, Rory MacLean and others. River, Street, Border (N.B. black and white), Women, Spirit. Burmese musical accompaniment. Light and shade: not a general in sight, but their shadow is present throughout. Forum, Links. Of the photographs, Henri Cartier-Bresson came to mind for the dynamic of people-environment, Edward Curtis for some of the portraits, S. Salgado...
Creator/author: Geoffrey Hillier
Source/publisher: Geoffrey Hillier
2001-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English, Burmese
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Description: Cities/Buildings Archive. Architectural photos. Mainly pagodas.
Creator/author: Mary Lee Hu
Source/publisher: University of Washington
1973-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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