These Burmese fishermen have mastered an unusual technique when it comes to paddling their boats. Carefully balancing on one leg, wrapping their second leg around the oar to guide the vessel through the freshwater lake. The skilled technique means the fishermen can stand and look out for reeds in the water and keep both hands free to handle the cumbersome nets. Inle Lake, Myanmar, 2017
The Kayan originate in Burma (today Myanmar), from the Karen State. Most of them escaped the war and the regime violating their human rights in their homeland. Burmese Shan call them the Padaung. Only small fraction of the Kayan, or more precisely their women and girls, wear the brass neck-rings (it is actually one long spiral), which depresses their shoulders and therefore cause the woman's neck to look longer. This gave the people their unflattering nickname the ’long necks’. Kayah State, Myanmar, 2017
Portrait of a young monk. Myanmar, 2017.
