Minzayar Oo
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Burmese b. 1988
Minzayar is a Burmese photojournalist and documentary photographer based in his native town city of Yangon. He studied medicine at Yangon University of Medicine until 2011 when he decided to drop the medical career and pursue his personal interest in visually documenting the transition of his country. His first international breakthrough came in 2012 when his image of Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on the front page of the International Herald Tribune on the day after the country's historic by-elections that saw her elected to parliament.
Minzayar is a Burmese photojournalist and documentary photographer based in his native town city of Yangon. He studied medicine at Yangon University of Medicine until 2011 when he decided to drop the medical career and pursue his personal interest in visually documenting the transition of his country. His first international breakthrough came in 2012 when his image of Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on the front page of the International Herald Tribune on the day after the country's historic by-elections that saw her elected to parliament.
Small-scale jade miners search a huge pile of rubble, dumped by a commercial...
Small-scale jade miners search a huge pile of rubble, dumped by a commercial mining company, as they scavenge for rough jade among the waste. Everyday young men, who have migrated from different regio...
04/2015
Backhoes (diggers) provided by commercial mining companies to be used in the...
Backhoes (diggers) provided by commercial mining companies to be used in the search for bodies buried by a landslide.
11/2015
A Buddhist monk, pointing into the huge hole created by a jade-mining company,...
A Buddhist monk, pointing into the huge hole created by a jade-mining company, stresses his worries that the mining operation is endangering his monastery which is located just next to this mine.
04/2015
Illegal miners working by torchlight, going over a pile of company mining...
Illegal miners working by torchlight, going over a pile of company mining waste, looking for jade. Some miners work by day while others work by night but the mines never get a rest.
04/2015
Two miners riding a motorbikeare dwarfed by an enormous dump truck carrying...
Two miners riding a motorbikeare dwarfed by an enormous dump truck carrying waste from a commercial jade mine.
04/2015
Two women walk across an empty street in Mong La.The town of Mong La on the...
Two women walk across an empty street in Mong La.The town of Mong La on the Burma - China border in western Burma (Myanmar) is technically in Burma but relies on most infrastructure - electricity, tel...
10/2014
Illegal miners working by torchlight, going over a pile of company mining...
Illegal miners working by torchlight, going over a pile of company mining waste, looking for jade.
04/2015
Both seven year old refugee Breng Aung and his brother are from the local...
Both seven year old refugee Breng Aung and his brother are from the local ethnic Kachin minority who have been displaced by the armed-conflict, fought in the jade-rich region, between the Burmese mili...
04/2015
Small-scale jade miners search for the precious stones among the waste dumped...
Small-scale jade miners search for the precious stones among the waste dumped by trucks from a government-licensed jade mining company. Jade mining is a perilous job for small-scale miners especially...
04/2015
A fish in a tank and a chained up parrot in a shop which sells ivory tusks,...
A fish in a tank and a chained up parrot in a shop which sells ivory tusks, tiger bone wine (made by soaking tiger bones in Chinese rice wine with Chinese herbs), tiger skins and other animal products...
10/2014
A wildlife product shop in the market of Mong La with a large buffalo head...
A wildlife product shop in the market of Mong La with a large buffalo head resting in a box. The town of Mong La on the Burma - China border in western Burma (Myanmar) is technically in Burma but reli...
10/2014
Bottles of tiger bone wine and a tiger skin on display for sale at a wildlife...
Bottles of tiger bone wine and a tiger skin on display for sale at a wildlife products shop in Mong La. Tiger wine is made by soaking tiger bones in rice wine for up to 8 years and adding Chinese herb...
10/2014
A girl stands amid a crowd waiting for the announcement of the results of the...
A girl stands amid a crowd waiting for the announcement of the results of the 2015 general election in front of the National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarter in Yangon.
11/2015
Nepalese children on their way back from a makeshift school in a sherpa...
Nepalese children on their way back from a makeshift school in a sherpa village which was hit by the earthquake in 2015 in Sindhupalchok District.
03/2016
A girl with traditional tha-na-ka paste on her face in a classroom at a...
A girl with traditional tha-na-ka paste on her face in a classroom at a monastic school in Yangon.
10/2015
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