My photography in Burma focuses on public displays of religion in urban contexts. While conducting my doctoral research, I became intrigued with the variety of ways that public and communal works - from trash collection trucks to neighborhood water jugs - integrate religious imagery. The ubiquity of these images belies both the diversity of religious forms present in contemporary Burma and the hegemony of Buddhism in daily life.
A view down a side street onto Yangon’s famous Shwedagon pagoda. 2019.
Buddhist images surround a communal drinking water station. 2019.
A woman lights candles outside an apartment complex during Thadingyut, Myanmar’s October candle lighting holiday. Shot on Kodak Portra 400 film. 2019.
Jugs of tea keep warm in a street side tea shop. Shot on medium format Kodak Portra 160 film. 2020.
An explosion of flight and feathers outside of one of Yangon’s many temples. 2019.
A distorted image of a rickshaw outside a tea house. Shot on Kodak Tri-X 400 film, distorted through x-ray. 2020.
Flower garlands draped along a fence inside a temple complex in Bagan on New Years Day, 2020.