{"id":487,"date":"2008-12-11T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=487"},"modified":"2008-12-11T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T11:07:55","slug":"burma-thought-under-military-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Thought under Military Control"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMonks protest in London during Global day of action for Burma – see My London Diary<\/a>. (C) 2007, Peter Marshall<\/em><\/p>\n

MOIS DE LA PHOTO-OFF, PARIS
\nBirmanie, r\u00eaves sous surveillance<\/strong>
\n(Burma, Dreams under Surveillance)
\nDu 10 au 23 novembre 2008 aux V\u00f4utes<\/p>\n

The web site Burma, dreams under surveillance<\/strong><\/a> gives an excellent account of this project started in 2003 by the humanitarian organisation ‘Les yeux dans le monde’ to increase our awareness of the social and political situation in Burma.<\/p>\n

On 13 November we went to the opening of a show of the photographs taken by Manon Ott <\/em>and Gr\u00e9gory Cohen<\/em> at Les V\u00f4utes<\/em>, vaults under the roadway at les Frigos<\/em>, a former industrial complex now artists homes, studios and exhibition spaces, a block east of the new building of the National Library (Bibliotheque Fran\u00e7ois Mitterand) in the XIIIe.<\/p>\n

The work is also available as a book from Editions Autrement<\/em>, published in May 2008, when the work was also shown at Les V\u00f4utes with a two-day festival.\u00a0 The photographs are presented in four chapters: People\u0092s desire<\/em>, Stories of resistance<\/em>, Between survival and guerilla war<\/em> and The border areas<\/em>, and also includes appendices containing information about the country and its culture.<\/p>\n

Although there were some powerful images on the wall, and in the projection on the screen at the end of the cellar, the added structure of the book gives a much tighter experience.<\/p>\n

There were a number of images among the work that to me seemed perhaps more touristic than documentary, and at times I wondered about how the work had been affected by the difficulties of working openly in Burma, impossible for me to assess.<\/p>\n

But there were also moving stories and powerful suggestions of a pervasive military supervision of all aspects of life (the mention of Orwell’s 1984 seemed only too true.) But there was also humour – and if you don’t know about the Moustache Brothers you can find out here and also see them on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nBurma Peace walk in London<\/a>,\u00a0 Jan 2008 – Protests like this would be brutally repressed in Burma. (C) 2008, Peter Marshall<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monks protest in London during Global day of action for Burma – see My London Diary. (C) 2007, Peter Marshall MOIS DE LA PHOTO-OFF, PARIS Birmanie, r\u00eaves sous surveillance (Burma, Dreams under Surveillance) Du 10 au 23 novembre 2008 aux V\u00f4utes The web site Burma, dreams under surveillance gives an excellent account of this project … Continue reading Burma: Thought under Military Control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photographers","category-reviews-etc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}