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  • Young monks at the  Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021118.004.jpg
  • Street child<br />
Rangoon, Burma 1999
    MAA-021016-012.jpg
  • Laden with flowers and doughnut at a village market.<br />
Tenasserim region, burma 2000
    MAA-021016-015.jpg
  • Clearing weed on Inle Lake for use as compost in floating gardens.<br />
Burma 1999
    MAA-021016-011.jpg
  • Inle Lake. Villager rows his boat with the distinctive style of the Intha leg rowers, wrapping one leg around the oar. The style developed as it was necessary to stand while rowing in order to see over the heavy growth of vegetation. Burma 1999
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  • Street barber cutting small boy's hair. Rangoon, Burma 2001
    MAA-021118.009.jpg
  • Traveller hangs from the back of  abus as it rides through Rangoon. Burma 1999
    MAA_99.4123.24.34.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021201.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021118.001.jpg
  • Father and child on a motorbike. Tenasserim district. Burma 2001
    MAA-021016.006.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021118.002.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021201.005.jpg
  • Monks at the Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021016.008.jpg
  • Young novice nuns. Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021016-016.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021118.003.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021016.007.jpg
  • Cleaners sweeping through Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021201.002.jpg
  • Flower seller at street maarket in Rangoon, Burma 2001
    MAA-021118.010.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021201.011.jpg
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  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021118.006.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021118.005.jpg
  • Nga Htat Gyi Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma 2001
    MAA-021118.007.jpg
  • Man relaxing in a chair in the doorway to his shop. Rangoon, Burma 2001
    MAA-021122.001.jpg
  • Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-021201-013.jpg
  • Chauk Htat Gyi Pagoda housing the 4th largest reclining Buddha in Burma 216 feet long and 58 feet high. Rangoon, Burma 2001
    MAA-021118.008.jpg
  • Gas pipeline under construction through the jungle from Burma to Thailand. Burma 1998.
    MAA-021201.001.jpg
  • Inle Lake. Villager rows his boat with the distinctive style of the Intha leg rowers, wrapping one leg around the oar. The style developed as it was necessary to stand while rowing in order to see over the heavy growth of vegetation. Burma 1999
    MAA-021201.006.jpg
  • Line of Buddahs stretching up a hill. Tenesserim state. Burma 2001
    MAA-021201.007.jpg
  • Men playing chequers using bottletops, during an afternoon break. Rangoon, Burma 2001
    MAA-021201.010.jpg
  • Clearing weed on Inle Lake for use as compost in floating gardens.<br />
Burma 1999
    MAA-021201.009.jpg
  • Harvesting Tomatoes.<br />
Floating gardens are created on the lake.<br />
Inle Lake, Burma 1999
    MAA-021016-013.jpg
  • Cycle rickshaw loaded with London Cigarettes and coloured balls. Rangoon, Burma 2001
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  • Seamstress working in a village in the Tenasserim region of Burma.<br />
1998
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  • Village in the Tenasserim region of Burma.<br />
1998
    MAA-020913-009.jpg
  • Working in the vegetable garden in a village in the Tenasserim region. Burma 1999
    MAA-021016.004.jpg
  • Nusery school<br />
Yangon, Burma
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  • Child at nersery school. Rangoon, Burma 2000
    MAA-021016.005.jpg
  • Fisherman prepares his boat on the beach. Maungmakan township.  South EastBurma 1998
    MAA-98.1171.20.33a.jpg
  • Traveller hangs out of the back of a bus as it travels through Rangoon. Burma 1999
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  • Two market tradersrelax and embrace. Rangoon, Burma.1997
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  • Cycle rickshaw driver rests between rides. rangoon, Burma 1999
    MAA-99.4123.24.11.jpg
  • Novice monk walks through the groubnd of Shinmokhti Paya. Dawei, Burma 1998
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  • Woman clutching a shopping basket and a bunch of flowers travel by cycle rickshaw. Rangoon, Burma 1999
    MAA-99.4123.30.16a.jpg
  • man prays at the Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-99.4123.34.26a.jpg
  • Monk at the Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-99.4123.34.31a.jpg
  • Man with a carrier bag with his shopping in one hand and his lunch in the other travels by cycle rickshaw. Rangoon, Burma 1999
    MAA-99.4123.30.5a.jpg
  • Woman prays at the Shwedagon Paya, the most important Buddist temple in Rangoon. Nearly 100 metres high. Decorated with 8000 gold plates, 5000 diamonds and 2000 other precious and semi precious stones and surrounded by 82 smaller temples, attracts the faithful day and night.<br />
Rangoon, Burma. 1999
    MAA-99.4123.34.23a.jpg
  • Young monks walk up the steps of their Pagoda. Rangoon, Burma 1997
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  • Mother and child ride throug the wet street in a cycle rickshaw. Rangoon, Burma 1997
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