To open up a still tightly sealed off region to the eyes of the world

To showcase the emerging visual art scene in the Kachin foothills of the Himalaya

To share with Burma and the rest of the world the uniqueness of Kachinland

To inspire understanding & empathy from the world community for the plight of the Kachin peoples

everydaykachin

A visual archive to open up this largely sealed off region to the eyes of the world. Kachin State & the KIO micronation. A project from @studiosakse

The China - Kachin Border, which has been closed t

The China - Kachin Border, which has been closed to human traffic and goods since the very begging of the pandemic. This section of the border, just oppsite the Je Yang IDP camp, near Laiza used to be completely open.

Photo by Ring Nu Awng @ringnuawng

#chinaborder #Kachin #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #sakse #studiosakse

Model: Ja Seng Ing Make-up Artist: LuLu Awn Nka Ph

Model: Ja Seng Ing
Make-up Artist: LuLu Awn Nka
Photo: Ring Nu Awng

Photo and caption: @ringnuawng

#everydaykachin #portrait #jinghpaw #ethniccostume #maru #everydayasia #everydayeverywhere

The night market in Laiza serves a variety of trad

The night market in Laiza serves a variety of traditional Kachin foods and snacks as well as some Burmese and Chinese snacks -
Photo by @brangliaung

#everydaykachin #kachin #kachinfood #laiza #laizamarket #everydaymyanmar #burma #blackandwhitephotography #everydayeverywhere

ဆက်တင်
Surreal Lana Zup

အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက
အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ
မြင်ရတာ
Dream
Can be seen
As black and white

ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့
မျက်လုံးထဲက
အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ်
As I fell into the abyss,
Yellow blood
From my eye

မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း
အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက်
လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ
Desire to reach tomorrow,
It's not as easy as
Insomnia

နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ
ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း
သိရတယ်
After wearing the earphone by force
just realized the color of the world,
is Red

ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ်
မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း
မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ
To stand up
On my own slipper, with my own legs,
It has to be raining (heavily).

ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့
အသံတစ်သံ
ဖမ်းမိထားတယ်
I’ve catched a voice
Turns blue
When it's wet

လမ်းမကြီးကတော့
ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး
ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ်
The road
Still colorless
Me, wearing slipper and ready position

အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင်
After all those programs,

ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့
ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ်
I do know that
Life will end with “to be continued..”

Poet: Thayell
Photo: @abstractheoctopus

#everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

ဆက်တင်
Surreal Lana Zup

အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက
အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ
မြင်ရတာ
Dream
Can be seen
As black and white

ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့
မျက်လုံးထဲက
အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ်
As I fell into the abyss,
Yellow blood
From my eye

မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း
အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက်
လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ
Desire to reach tomorrow,
It's not as easy as
Insomnia

နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ
ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း
သိရတယ်
After wearing the earphone by force
just realized the color of the world,
is Red

ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ်
မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း
မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ
To stand up
On my own slipper, with my own legs,
It has to be raining (heavily).

ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့
အသံတစ်သံ
ဖမ်းမိထားတယ်
I’ve catched a voice
Turns blue
When it's wet

လမ်းမကြီးကတော့
ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး
ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ်
The road
Still colorless
Me, wearing slipper and ready position

အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင်
After all those programs,

ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့
ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ်
I do know that
Life will end with “to be continued..”

Poet: Thayell
Photo: @abstractheoctopus

#everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

ဆက်တင်
Surreal Lana Zup

အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက
အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ
မြင်ရတာ
Dream
Can be seen
As black and white

ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့
မျက်လုံးထဲက
အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ်
As I fell into the abyss,
Yellow blood
From my eye

မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း
အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက်
လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ
Desire to reach tomorrow,
It's not as easy as
Insomnia

နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ
ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း
သိရတယ်
After wearing the earphone by force
just realized the color of the world,
is Red

ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ်
မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း
မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ
To stand up
On my own slipper, with my own legs,
It has to be raining (heavily).

ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့
အသံတစ်သံ
ဖမ်းမိထားတယ်
I’ve catched a voice
Turns blue
When it's wet

လမ်းမကြီးကတော့
ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး
ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ်
The road
Still colorless
Me, wearing slipper and ready position

အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင်
After all those programs,

ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့
ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ်
I do know that
Life will end with “to be continued..”

Poet: Thayell
Photo: @abstractheoctopus

#everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

ဆက်တင်
Surreal Lana Zup

အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက
အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ
မြင်ရတာ
Dream
Can be seen
As black and white

ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့
မျက်လုံးထဲက
အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ်
As I fell into the abyss,
Yellow blood
From my eye

မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း
အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက်
လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ
Desire to reach tomorrow,
It's not as easy as
Insomnia

နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ
ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း
သိရတယ်
After wearing the earphone by force
just realized the color of the world,
is Red

ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ်
မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း
မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ
To stand up
On my own slipper, with my own legs,
It has to be raining (heavily).

ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့
အသံတစ်သံ
ဖမ်းမိထားတယ်
I’ve catched a voice
Turns blue
When it's wet

လမ်းမကြီးကတော့
ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး
ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ်
The road
Still colorless
Me, wearing slipper and ready position

အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင်
After all those programs,

ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့
ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ်
I do know that
Life will end with “to be continued..”

Poet: Thayell
Photo: @abstractheoctopus

#everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

#Schrapnel from the attack today on the KBC's Kach

#Schrapnel from the attack today on the KBC's Kachin Theological college in #Kukai. It was hit with 3 #Artillery shells from the #BurmeseArmy, injuring 4 students.
Another university town, #MaiJaYang, was also hit in a separate attack as well as an #IDPcamp of civilians who fled the conflict.
Mai ja yang city is on the China-Myanmar border and has Kachin National College, College of Education and Federal Law Academy and other schools, KIO It is also known as Education City

Photo by unknown artist

#KhitThitMedia #Kachin #everydaykachin #sakse #CivilWar #everydayeverwhere

Fresh graves for the bodies of the victims of the

Fresh graves for the bodies of the victims of the recent Burmese Army bombing in Hpakant, ANang Pa.

Photo by Anonymous

#massgrave #bombing #civilians #CivilWar #Kachin #everydaykachin #everydayeverywhere #everydaymyanmar

Mass grave from the recent bombing. Burmese army

Mass grave from the recent bombing.

Burmese army jet bombing of a music concert in Kachin. Deaths are over 100 now, as the army also blocked roads with access to hospitals.

photo by Uru Shagan - Alias

Kachin tribal chiefs leading the #Manau celebratio

Kachin tribal chiefs leading the #Manau celebration in Shatapru quarter for the Kachin Baptist Convention's 50th anniversary, Myitkyina.
The #kachin people often celebrate the Manau around February. Men carry swords, and women different accessories ( fans or handkerchiefs ). Tribal chiefs take the lead of an extremely long procession, lasting for hours, where people, village after village, follow each other for a dance that takes the form of a giant spiral. The #jinghpaw ethnic group lives on both sides of the border between China and Myanmar. Although the Manau finds its roots in animist beliefs, it is celebrated by Christians today.

Photograph by Zau Ring Hpra @zauringhpra

#everydaykachin #jinghpaw #manaucelebration #studiosakse #manau #kbc

Artist Caption: It's so muddy in Ban Dawng village

Artist Caption:
It's so muddy in Ban Dawng villages and others near that cars and even motorcycles are difficult to move around. We can only use our water buffalo drawn carts.

Everyday Kachin note:
Now is the Himalayan monsoon season which ends about 1 month earlier then the rest of SE Asia.

Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang

#everydaykachin #kachinland #everydaymyanmar #myanmar #studiosakse

To help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Everyday

To help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Everyday Africa/The Everyday Projects, Sakse has been invited to take part in a print sale. The revenue from the sale of prints will split 50-50 between the photographer and The Everyday Projects.

As the sale is planned for mid-November, we are looking for the photo submission for this sale now. Please send us a message or email (submit@everydaykachin.com) with suggested images by September 21.

@everydayafrica @everydayeverywhere

#everydaykachin #kachinstate #myanmar #everydaymyanmar

everydaykachin note: A group of water buffalo herd

everydaykachin note: A group of water buffalo herders resting near the University of Mai Ja Yang building. The university is located in the city of Mai Ja Yang - the KIO's second capital city. Mai Ja Yang is the home to many educational institutions, including the Federal Law Academy (FLA), the Teachers' Training College (TTC), the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS) among many others.

Photo by Hkun Li: @jocoseboy

#everydaykachin #kachinstate #myanmar #maijayang #everydaymyanmar

artist caption : Many jobless people all over Burm

artist caption : Many jobless people all over Burma moved north and took up small gold mining after the Burmese military coup. There are many conflicts, political instability and chaos in Burma and people are using it to illegally exploit gold and other resources in Kachin state.

Everyday Kachin note :
In these makeshift gold mines, the use of mercury to collect gold is common. The toxicity of mercury can lead to serious skin problems and in many causes, loss of fingers. Mercury can also attack the nervous system and exposure can lead to lifelong disabilities.

Please see link in the comments for more context

Photo By Yawng Htang @yawng_htang

#everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia
#war #conflict #civilwar #displacement #refugee #gold #goldmining #studiosakse

After the long slow migration from Mongolia, the K

After the long slow migration from Mongolia, the Kachin people have been settled in Burma, India & China since long before those borders were clearly defined. In China they are an officially recognized ethnic group by the name Jingpo. They host Manau festivals and keep close contacts with their clan brothers and sisters living within Burma.
This photoshoot of a Jingpo model shows the traditional outfit of the Kachin ethnic group in China.

Credit to @shaoshu_minzu

Photo by 巾帼哥哥

#everydaykachin #everydayeverywhere #everydaymyanmar #kachin #ethnic #traditional #jingpo #model

Artist caption : Kachin Prewedding Photo by Hkun

Artist caption : Kachin Prewedding

Photo by Hkun Rein @hkunr

#everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #wedding #kachin

Everyday Kachin Note : Depression is a serious is

Everyday Kachin Note :
Depression is a serious issue in the IDP camps. With the displacement lasting over a decade now, the feeling of not being able to provide for one's family weighs heavy on this group of previous self-sufficient farmers & hunters. Finding a healthy meal for one's family is something everyone of these displaced people are very capable of doing, but it requires access to land to grow and forests to hunt. Despite making just a few hundred dollars per year, these families had a rich life in many ways. A life that can not be recreated without land.

Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang

#everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia
#war #conflict #civilwar #displacement #refugee #studiosakse

Artist caption : Oct 6th 2013. In a rare chance t

Artist caption :
Oct 6th 2013. In a rare chance the KIO leadership was able to meet with UN representatives in the no-man's land between the KIO and Burmese Army control areas. The highest ranking KIO representative to join was Gen. Sumlut Gun Maw. These peace talks collapsed and many observers agreed that the real point for the Burmese to organize Peace talks was just to get sanctions lifted, not to build short or long term peace. The Burmese army was on the offensive for the duration of the peace talks and often greatly increased the severity of attacks just prior to a fresh round of talks.

Photo by Ryan Libre @foliolibre

#everydayeverywhere #everydaykachin #everydayasia #kachin #UN

Artist caption : The students were taking Kachin S

Artist caption :
The students were taking Kachin Subject exam on the first day of matriculation exam in Laiza High School, 21 April, 2022.
Despite the ongoing war and pandemic in Kachin, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) began giving matriculation exams in KIO-administered areas yesterday (21 April).
A total of 2,192 students are taking the exam, which took place until the 28th of April, 2022.
Everyday Kachin Notes : The number of students studying under the KIO has increased by about 50% since the military coup. Many Kachin students were previously educated under the Burmese education system. Since the coup, many of these schools have closed or are no longer accessible to them.

Photo by Ring Nu Awng @ringnuawng

#everydayeverywhere #everydaykachin #laiza #education #highschool #everydayasia #kachin

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