BURMA:
This is Another Place


James Mackay, a documentary photographer based in South East Asia and the UK specialises in Burma, both in-country and around political and human rights issues along it's borders and those in exile around the world. Below are a selection of photo-stories providing a glimpse at life in the darkness of the Golden Land.

In 1962 a military coup saw Burma, an isolated Buddhist country in South-East Asia, come under the power of one of the world’s most brutal regimes. For the past five decades, the country has been ruled through fear and oppression that has seen thousands of people arrested, tortured and given long prison sentences for openly expressing their beliefs as well as crimes against humanity being committed in the country's ethnic regions. More than a million people have been left internally displaced and over 150,000 now live as stateless refugees on Burma's numerous borders. Whilst the democracy movement once again gathers pace under the renewed leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, the people of Burma remain shackled by an authoritarian regime and are left to suffer silently in the hope that one day true freedom will be theirs.


PROJECTS & PUBLISHED WORK


In this section photo galleries have been collated together in 'Collections' of work that are long term documentary projects. Please click on the collection below to view photo galleries on that subject matter.

Tearsheets are available for viewing in the section 'Published Work'