by Ben Randall | Nov 14, 2013
Day: 65Distance covered: 9,045 km (5,620 miles)Subjects found: 33Our search for this boy, photographed at a village wedding almost five years ago, led us to a monastery an hour’s walk to the south. Pho Htay is his name. He’s eleven years old, a nephew of...
by Ben Randall | Nov 14, 2013
Day: 65Distance covered: 9,040 km (5,617 miles)Subjects found: 31In the hills of Myanmar’s Shan State, Marinho and I continued the hunt for guests from a village wedding which took place almost five years earlier, and discovered an unexpected connection between...
by Ben Randall | Nov 13, 2013
Day: 64Distance covered: 9,032 km (5,612 miles)Subjects found: 28Almost five years ago, my brother and I passed through a small Danu minority village in Myanmar’s Shan State where preparations for a Buddhist wedding were taking place. The village had only two...
by Ben Randall | Nov 12, 2013
Day: 63 Distance covered: 9,029 km (5,610 miles) Subjects found: 24 We’re back to break the silence, and we have so much to tell you. Marinho and I have spent the past two weeks trekking between minority villages in search of our final subjects here in Myanmar....
by Ben Randall | Nov 9, 2013
Day: 60Distance covered: 8,745 km (5,434 miles)Subjects found: 23It was a day of false expectations.Until now, my memories of Asia have been remarkably accurate, and I remembered nothing good about this place. In fact, I’d scrawled WORST TOWN IN MYANMAR beside its...