I won’t pretend that I’m anything close to a portrait photographer, but while in Myanmar this past week, I couldn’t help but document the faces of many I met on the streets with my super ordinary, non-DSLR camera. They radiated the most genuine expressions I had ever seen, and that in itself is beautiful.
Detailed posts coming up about the trip – stay tuned!
A self-proclaimed expert in philosophy, he works as a palm reader on the streets of Yangon. he also told my friend that she would have “many lovers’ between 2014 and 2017 – we’ll see about that!
She is a street vendor in Yangon.
The son of a flower seller, he sat outside Yangon’s Mahabandoola gardens with a pile of frangipani flowers.
Beautiful little girl as part of a initiation ceremony at Shwedagon Paya. All Burmese boys go through two bouts of monkhood before they are allowed to marry.
Woman dressed in her finest on a pilgrimage to Yangon’s iconic Shwedagon Paya.
Believe it or not, this monk has “kiss me” tattooed on his arm. I wonder if he knows what that means.
A devout worshipper in Yangon’s Sule Paya.
These little boys are from a tailor’s family. Their house was right outside our hotel in Bagan, and we caught them chilling in the shade under a giant tamarind tree.
A posing toddler outside one of Bagan’s temples.
The little boy sells postcards in Bagan’s Dhammayangi Temple while on summer break. He is 10 and speaks excellent English. After we bought some, he volunteered as our tour guide as we wandered through the murals.
Shan Shan – a horsecart driver in Bagan. We hired him for our half day tour of the temples. He is wearing a traditional Burmese longyi.
Children selling sliced green mangos at Mt Kyaiktiyo, home to the sacred Buddhist Golden Rock. May is mango season.
She may still be a toddler, but she is already wearing the pink robes of a Burmese Buddhist nun.
Musings of a Leaf 
This is beautiful, Kathy 🙂
It absolutely blew me away – myanmar