A man carves marble at his workshop in Sagyin. Traditionally in Myanmar, marble carving has always been done by hand. However, to keep up with high demand and the government’s inflated prices most marble workers have turned to electric machines. What once took them a month to make can now be completed in two days.
Police line up to hold journalists back as 5 members of the ‘Peacock Generation’ exit court after being sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour for insulting the Tatmadaw in their Thangyat performance earlier this year.
A young girls lies underneath the Kuthodaw Pagoda with her mother to escape the midday heat, Mandalay.
A group of kids climb trees in their garden to pick tamarind. They use the tamarind in salads, to make sweets and for medicine.
A lady extracts fibres from the stem of a Lotus using a knife.
Around 100 years ago, woman around Inle Lake started weaving using lotus fabric. The Lotus stems are harvested during the monsoon season when the water levels are high and the stems are at their longest.