Exhibition shows plight of quake survivors

Curated by Platform 36 in collaboration with SEA Junction, CMB Foundation and Bangkok Tribune News, the exhibition features images by four Myanmar-based photographers, two professionals and two citizen journalists, who risked aftershocks, political reprisals and the junta government's censorship to document the quake's first week in Mandalay, Sagaing and Nay Pyi Taw cities. Wandering past a series of four images at the back wall, one can see a set showing a mother bathing her daughter in the Irrawaddy river beside the collapsed Ava Bridge, with the child's hand clutching a battered steel bowl. Moreover, in the wake of the quake, Myanmar's National Unity Government, the civilian government opposing the military regime, declared a two-week pause in offensive operations to allow relief work.

Author: Sooksodsai Sooksomchitra

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