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Mostly local Kachin photographers, with a few guests

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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.

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Photo By Yawng Htang @yawng_htang

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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

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Artist caption : Kachin Prewedding Photo by Hkun

Artist caption : Kachin Prewedding

Photo by Hkun Rein @hkunr

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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

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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

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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

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Artist caption : preparation for the Wedding. Eve

Artist caption : preparation for the Wedding.

Everyday Kachin Note : A traditional Kachin wedding ceremony takes multiple days, with many steps that can't be skipped.
In a part of the ceremonies, the two families meet to discuss the contents of the dowry. Cash is often not accepted and the demands which can include things like 500 eggs, can be used to test the groom will and love. After marriage, Kachin women keep their family names. The children take the father's name.

Photo by Khai @kam_mun_khai

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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.

Jak kaji hte ja htu taw ai shara langai hpe mu mada ai re, Myen mung kata military coup byin ai hpang kaw na mungdan kata n ru n ra majan byin nga ai ten jinghpaw mungdaw ni hta raitim n tara n hprang htu ai lam ni law law hpe mu mada ai re.

Everyday Kachin notes : This scene takes place in the photographer's hometown, Nam San Yang, that he has been documenting since 2011 as a part of his ongoing project “My Old Home”. He was forced to flee after the burmese military broke the ceasefire in June 2011.

Since the coup instability and inflation has greatly increased in a nation that has hardly ever known economic stability, thus pushing people into black market resource extraction and trading.

Due to the political instability, people have been increasingly taking advantage of gold and other resources in Kachin state particularly.

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Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang

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Soldiers of the People's Defense Force (PDF) havin

Soldiers of the People's Defense Force (PDF) having lunch at an undisclosed location in Northern Burma.
The PDF is the armed wing of the NUG and their number is estimated at 50,000 men and women. Despite having support from the people of Burma, they are considered as a terrorist organisation only by the military junta.

Photo by Anonymous

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမြောက်ပိုင်း တစ်နေရာတွင် နေ့လည်စာ စားသုံးနေကြသည့်ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ် (PDF) တပ်သားများ။
PDF သည် အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးအစိုးရ(NUG) ၏ လက်နက်ကိုင်အင်အားစုဖြစ်ပြီး ကျား/မ လူဦးရေ ၅၀,၀၀၀ ၀န်းကျင်ရှိမည်ဟု ခန့်မှန်းရသည်။မြန်မာပြည်သူများ၏ ချစ်ခင်ထောက်ခံမှုကို ရရှိထားသူများဖြစ်ပြီး စစ်အစိုးရကသာလျှင် အကြမ်းဖက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းတစ်ရပ်အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ထားခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။

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Artist caption : The girls are preparing for thank

Artist caption : The girls are preparing for thanksgiving day chyeju dum poi. Photo by @hkunr

ဓာတ်ပုံဆရာ၏ ပုံရည်ညွှန်းစာ - ကျေးဇူးတော်ချီးမွမ်းခြင်းပွဲတော် Chyeju Dum Poi အတွက် ပြင်ဆင်နေကြသော မိန်းကလေးငယ်များ
ဓာတ်ပုံ - @hkunr
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Myanmar Pressphoto Agency caption : NUG Interim Pr

Myanmar Pressphoto Agency caption : NUG Interim President Duwa Lashi La Meets PDF Comrades
The Interim President of the National Unity Government (NUG), Duwa Lashi La, went and met with the People’s Defense Force (PDF) comrades on a front line and shared words of encouragement.
The Interim President met with PDF comrades at a frontline base on May 24 and said, “Since the comrades are the heroes and hope of the country, I am proud of you. The PDF soldiers who are risking their lives for the people’s revolution and everyone who involves in the resistance war have already been well-inscribed by history”.
In addition, the PDF army plays a significant role in building the future Federal Army and the principles of federalism and democracy need to be practiced since now, he informed.
The Interim President and entourage checked the conditions of the camps, the needs and living conditions of the PDF army and also did fulfilments. They also watched their training activities and received the greetings and salutes from the soldiers as well.

Photo from the Myanmar Pressphoto Agency selected by Kc North Lvo

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artist caption : The power of revolutionary love

artist caption :

The power of revolutionary love

Htunghkying
Myusha lam yan
Shingra masa
Shingni nsam
Yawng hpe hkyawm ai tsaw ra myit hte hpring let. ..
Rawt malan jet ai tsaw ra myit hpe shagrau let.
simple life❤💗
simple love💗❤

ဓာတ်ပုံဆရာ၏ ပုံရည်ညွှန်းစာ - တော်လှန်ရေးအချစ်ရဲ့ စွမ်းပကား
ရိုးရှင်းတဲ့ ဘဝ
ရိုးရှင်းတဲ့ အချစ်
ဓာတ်ပုံ- DeeLabang

Photo by Di Buk @bawkdee15

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Artist caption : It has now been 10 years since th

Artist caption : It has now been 10 years since the resumption of hostilities in Kachin State, which began on June 9, 2011. For ten years, I took as many documentary photos as I could. I still have nightmares that this conflict will not end, and no choice but to keep documenting it. Every time I look at the calendar, it is full of uncertainty.
EverydayKachin note : This June 9th will mark the 11 anniversary of the breaking of the ceasefire by the burmese military.
Photo by Hkun Li @jocoseboy
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Lifestyle portrait shoot near Muse, Kachin Sub-Sta

Lifestyle portrait shoot near Muse, Kachin Sub-State

Photo by Sinwar Naung @lahpaisinwarnaung

ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်း မူဆယ်မြို့အနီး ရိုက်ကူးခဲ့သည့် ဘဝစတိုင်မြင်ကွင်းတစ်ခု
ဓာတ်ပုံ - SinwarNaung Photography

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artist caption : Take up arms for the revolution

artist caption : Take up arms for the revolution

EverydayKachin notes :
A KIA soldier reading the newspaper in his native Jinghpaw language during military training. The front page celebrates the 60 anniversary of the KIO, illustrated with a image of Gunhtang Gam Shawng. He is the vice chairman of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and the commander in chief of the Kachin Independence Army.

Photo by La Awng @hpauyam_adoi

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Artist Caption : I left my house and my shoes mor

Artist Caption :
I left my house and my shoes more than ten years, Oh Oh !!
I also already grown up !

10 jan ning tawn kau da ai n ta
hte ngai na hkyep din
!aw !aw ngai pi grai kaba mat sai she rai nga

Everyday Kachin note :
The author of this photo had to flee his village because of the conflict in Kachin State.
Ten years later, he was able to come back and find one of his old shoes amid the ruins of what he once called home.

Photo by Naw San @gyunghpau

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General Sumlut Gun Maw, taken not long after he be

General Sumlut Gun Maw, taken not long after he became the youngest vice chief-of-staff, at his office in the KIA's pentagon on A Len bum mountain.
Taken in 2009 when there was still a cease-fire.
He is known for his work with education and opened a public library / research center in Laiza.

Photo by Ryan Libre @foliolibre

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Everyday Kachin caption : In a gold mine quarry ne

Everyday Kachin caption : In a gold mine quarry near the village of Nam San Yang, Kachin State. The miners spared a piece of the mountain where a Chinese immigrant's grave lies. Since the military coup, the gold mining went up 10 times, primarily in Kachin.

Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang

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Everyday Kachin caption : In Myitkyina, the grand

Everyday Kachin caption : In Myitkyina, the grand Manau post can be found on the bank of the Mali Hka ( Irrawaddy) river.
It is located at the entrance to the quarter of Shatapru, a Kachin residential area.
Traditionally, Kachin people would dance by the thousand during a Manau festival to celebrate a time of peace. Because of the war and and the displacement of 15% of their population, a decade has now passed without a celebration here.

Photo by Lee Yong Chao @i_belee

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artist caption : Kachin youth were actively partic

artist caption : Kachin youth were actively participated in anti-military dictatorship

Photo by La Awng @hpauyam_adoi

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