PHOTOGRAPHER

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“Journalism shows the truth of things”

Information

I have wanted to be a journalist since Grade 7 (13 yo) because I like to travel and learn many new things. Besides, I like socialising with people from all backgrounds and nationalities. I have no desire for those jobs that require going to an office and doing the same task every day.

I have my phone and a computer on which I can do writing and editing. This is all I need. My goal is to write articles that cover issues that are relevant across the world. I also want to shoot videos while pursuing my media studies and improving my technical skills.

My favorite stories are about cybersecurity and what’s happening in online-Myanmar before and after the coup. The features we work on are hard and long to complete as we have to do many interviews under anonymity, update facts constantly as the situation is evolving very fast and face dire and risky working conditions while reporting.

The reason I keep working as a journalist is that this career suits my values and passions. I will keep on going whatever it takes. The power of Photography/Journalism is that it shows the truth about things people should be aware of. Being rightfully informed is something that people will always need whenever and wherever.

You can read more about me in this interview by Amplify Voices Alliance.

PUBLICATIONS

Visual Rebellion Timeline

The return of the darkness (February 2022)
Exam papers gone in smoke in Chin State (March 2022)
The dangers of Thingyan festival (April 2022)
The fuel crisis (May 2022)
Remember six decades of student repression (June 2022)
Surviving in cities of crime and despair (September 2022)
Myanmar Youth Seeks Japan as a Work and Study Eldorado (January 2023)
ELECTION VOX POP // Thai and Myanmar residents hope for a common fair future (May 2023)

Digital Rights (Engage Media)

In Myanmar, Telegram is used as a weapon to destroy lives (26/07/2023)
—> အသက်အန္တရာယ်ထိ စိုးရိမ်နေရတဲ့ အွန်လိုင်းလက်နက် တယ်လီဂရမ် (Burmese version)

Surveillance regime and threats to privacy: Digital authoritarianism in Myanmar (27/07/2023)
—> မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ် အာဏာရှင်စနစ် သို့မဟုတ် စောင့်ကြည့်နေသော စစ်တပ်၏ မျက်လုံးများနှင့် ကိုယ်ရေးကိုယ်တာ ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှုများ (Burmese version)

In post-coup Myanmar, telco operators act as the military’s eyes and ears (31/07/2023)
—> အာဏာသိမ်းမှုအလွန်မှာ စစ်တပ်ရဲ့ နားနဲ့ မျက်လုံးတွေဖြစ်လာတဲ့ ဆက်သွယ်ရေးအော်ပရေတာများ (Burmese version)

Democratic Voice of Burma

The child victims of Myanmar’s military coup (02/06/2023)
—> နိုင်ငံရေးရဲ့ သားကောင်ဖြစ်လာတဲ့ ကလေးတွေ (Burmese version)

Video Diaries

‘What Future?” – This episode from a short documentary based on my daily experience in Yangon since the coup was screened at the Burma Film Benefit Spring Festival (February 2022)
All the six episodes “From the Streets of Myanmar” can be watched on our video section or our Youtube channel. They were selected for numerous film festivals in Europe and Asia.

Researchers’ Republic (Burmese academic think-tank)

My report on cybersecurity and the war on information and telecommunications:
“The Internet As A Battlefield in Post-Coup Myanmar” (January 2022)

Mediapart (French investigative outlet)

Collaborative Photo-stories

“The Myanmar Project – Streets of Protest”
Part 1 (09/02/2021) // Part 2 (15/02/2021) // Part 3 (08/03/2021) Part 4 (12/03/2021) // Part 5 (17/03/2021) // Part 6 (01/04/2021) Part 7 (11/04/2021) // Part 8 (18/04/2021) // Part 9 (03/05/2021)

Collaborative Features

The Myanmar Project: young local reporters brave the military crackdown (In English – February 2021)
Burma’s military assaults civil disobedience movement (In French – March 2021)
Left to its own devices, a united Burma fights the army with its bare hands (In French – April 2021)
Faced with Covid, Burma is in a “desperate” state (In French – August 2021)
Burma: Resisting the massacre of a generation through education (In French – August 2021)
In Burma, “jungle schools” for ethnic minority students (In French – August 2021)

My picture was chosen as a poster for the fundraising night at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Bangkok in January 2022 and I took part in several photo-exhibitions.

PHOTO PORTFOLIO

Q & A

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