
Two of our galleries in edition ten deal with oppression - one in a
country currently much in the headlines, Burma otherwise known
as Myanmar, the other in the Czech Republic where minority Romany people are,
according to our photographer, the victims of racism and discrimination.
Thai photojournalist Rungroj Yongrit spent time at a unique clinic on the Thai-Burmese border.
Here refugees from an area in Burma, who have lost limbs after stepping on land mines, are treated and fitted with artificial limbs. And many of the people making the limbs are refugees who have suffered similar injuries and benefited from the clinic themselves.
Last year Turkish freelance photographer Gülbin Özdamar went to the
Czech Republic and found that Romany people in a part of northern Bohemia were
clearly being victimized. So she set about photographing the way of life these
Romanies are subjected to.
There is even a wall, she says, to keep the Romanies or "gypsies" apart from other people. She hopes her pictures can do something to help the situation.
Peruvian Professor of Photography José Chuquiure Alva had to climb steeply to get the images for his gallery - 3500 meters up the Andes Mountains in his native country.
There the multi-award winner captured The Passion of Christ, a religious ceremony carried out in a village for each of the last fifteen years. His photographs are given a unique quality by the infrared film he uses.
Finally, this edition's portfolio comes from Indian-born Manish Swarup of The
Associated Press, who has covered many of the major news stories of the last
20 years in Asia.
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