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Chris Steele-Perkins Musicians. On way from Lashio to Mu-Se. Wedding ceremony for Wa people. Shan state, Myanmar. 2015. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Rohinga refugees from Myanmar (Burma). Young and old are carried ashore in Bangladesh after fleeing from Burmese persecution. Bangladesh. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR (Burma) Collecting palm-wine. The sap from the tree ferments to form alcohol. The tree also provides sugar when the sap is boiled down. 1995. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. Rakhine State. Sittwe. 2014. Local area where a number of camps have been set up for the Internally Displaced People - all Muslim, who were attacked by the local Arakan people who do not (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins Early morning. Chin State . Hakha. Myanmar. 2014. . © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins New arrivals from Myanmar (Burma) make their way to the registration centre. Teknaf. Bangladesh. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR (Burma.) Monks may only eat before midday and only food given to them, so every morning they go on collecting rounds. 1995. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR (Burma) Refugees wait to move after a Myanmar cross border attack. 1995 © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins School band. Myamar National Day celebrations. Keng Tung, Myanmar. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. BAGAN. Early morning balloon flights are popular with tourists. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. KENG TUNG Myamar National Day celebrations. Balloon seller. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Young Buddhist monks look out from their monastry near Inle Lake. Myanmar (Burma). 1995. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Myanmar National Day celebrations. People arriving early. Keng Tung, Myanmar. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Quarry for stone on a road to Mogok. Myanmar. 2015. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Tourists come for sunset photography at the Pyathada Paya. Bagan, Myanmar. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Myanmar. 2015. Nuns on the road to Sagaing from Mandalay moving stones. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. A road out of Mandalay, women do most of the work on road repairs. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Myanmar. Golden Rock Pagoda in Mon State. Novice monks © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. Yangon. 2014. Young Buddhist nuns sleep on a train. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. YANGON. National Swimming Pool. Olympic scale swimming pool. Lessons for children in the morning. 2013. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Art exhibition in grounds of a hotel. Painting of Aung San Suu Kyi. Mandalay, Myanmar. 2014. MANDALAY. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. Nuns on the road to Sagaing from Mandalay moving stones. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Hills and Pagodas as seen from Shwetaung Pagoda, the highest in the area. Mrauk U, Myanmar. 2014. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Mon State and Pa-O ethnic group. Most Building a new pagoda using volunteer workers from monastry called One Hundred Flags. Most Pa-O live in Shan state. Myanmar. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Buddhist wedding reception in a hotel. Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. 2014. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR (Burma) Young boys, after the age of 7 spend a short time during a school holiday as novice monks. Their inititation is a lengthy ceremony over 2 days. On the first, they are dressed and ma (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. near MRAUK U. Rakhine State. Chin peoples' villages along the Limro River. Traditionally women had tatooed faces, but the younger generation does not want to. Some villages now suppo (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR (Burma) Young boys, after the age of 7 spend a short time during a school holiday as novice monks. Their inititation is a lengthy ceremony over 2 days. On the first, they are dressed and ma (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR (Burma) Latain village. The Padung tribe, known for their Giraffe Necked Women, whose rib-cage is pushed down by adding brass rings to the neck. They are becoming less common as their obvio (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins MYANMAR. 2014. HAKHA. Chin State. Early morning. Taking breakfast. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos