Whilst I have many further photos from Myanmar, this gallery is a ‘historical’ piece, featuring only photos taken on black and white film or terribly dodgy, locally bought, colour film from my first trip to Burma in 1998. I had no pretensions of being considered anything more than a holiday photographer but Burma was particularly  compelling: propaganda, street children on the streets at midnight, festivals, local people, a country which seemed so to be from a completely different era. Sixty years out of date and going backwards. When I returned to Australia, at time when so little media of any type was coming out of Burma, the resultant photography became the subject of my first exhibition and a number thereafter, including exhibitions opened by former Australian Ambassador to Burma, Mr Garry Woodard, and former Australian Governor General, Sir Ninian Stephen, who was at the time working with an International Labour Organisation team focusing on conditions in Burma. 

As such, this body of work was very much responsible for photography becoming a serious part of my professional life.