I have finally begun the task of evaluating my photos from my adventures with All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF), during the year 1997-1998 and proofing a selection of photos for my next book project Burma's Club Med, that I plan to have completed by the Fall of 2013. It's been pretty exciting revisiting my work and subsequently discovering images I had dismissed as not worthy of printing...
Between 1997 & 1998 I lived in South East Asia, spending most of my time living in the jungle/border area between Thailand and Burma with the All Burma Students' Democratic Front (ABSDF). I took hundreds, if not a few thousand photos all on 35mm film. I was a young female photographer living with a "guerrilla army", extremely naive about global politics (I tried the internet to research Burma...
In 1997 I lived in the border area between Thailand and Burma for almost a year with members of the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF ), teaching English and volunteering in exchange for room & board so I could help/participate in their fight for democracy. 15 years on and change may be afoot in Burma and my friends may eventually be able to go home. I am...