Capital City of a country in full evolution.
The traditional is slowly making space to the modern. You see it in the buildings and the style of the young people, you see it on TV and read it on the Newspapers : Change is here and unavoidable.
Therefore, in Yangon, you find an interesting mix of the old and the new co-existing alongside, which gives a very interesting context for Street Photography.
Yangon streets are perfect frames for Travel Photography : Golden pagodas, old colourful colonial buildings, street food and tea shops, parks… Burmese, Indians, Chinese. Buddhists, Sikhs or Hindus, muslims… There is a wide mix of culture in the different neighbourhoods of the City, offering a rich diversity of faces for great travel Portraits and storytellings.
Moreover, like most of the other Asian countries, people eat outside in the street shops so beside giving a real anima to the city, it creates easy opportunities to connect with the locals.
Then, the Life of the city still evolves mostly around the spiritual life and the several pagodas within the Capital. Obviously, this gives a never ending subject for the photographer but also the starting point for understanding the deep roots of the Burmese Culture.
All features that make Yangon a quite fascinating city to discover for the tourist and especially the travel photographer.
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[ Photos by Lorenz Berna, Text by Florence Lepavec ]
City lights in Yangon by night.
Thilashins Buddhist Nuns on an alms giving round across the city. "Thilashin" means "possessor of morality".
A seller of birds seeds waiting for customers in a street of Yangon. Feeding birds is one of the practices used by Buddhist worshippers to gain merits and purify their own karma.
A young burmese couple brought their baby with them on their visit to the Shwedagon Paya.
Breaking News Time in Yangon.
Young boys of Yangon.
Street food stand in a Yangon Street, set alongside the colourful wall of an old colonial house.
Street Photography in Yangon : playing with the morning lights on a crossroads.
Seller Boy in the Streets of Yangon, carrying his goods on a tray on his head.
Street Photography in Yangon : Two women chatting on the middle of the street, sitting on roads border stones.
Reading the morning News in Yangon streets.
Open Gym in a Park of the Capital city.
Seller of traditional bamboo trays walking on the streets to sell her articles.
Street stall of handbags for women, hanging on the door of some house.
Traffic on the roads, a classic in Yangon streets, at all hours of the day.
Resting in Chaos. Thanks to a nearby bridge, I was able to isolate this family relaxing in the street of the Capital.
A statue of Buddha nestled in the trunk of a banyan tree.
The golden Shwedagon Paya in Yangon, at sunset.
A young couple enjoying the city view from a bridge facing the famous Sule Pagoda of Yangon.
Street food seller carrying her breakfast set on her head, in Yangon.
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