Burma's democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi at home in Rangoon, Burma. The name of a political prisoner is written on the palm of her hand, as she demands the release of more than 2,000 political prisoners currently incarcerated in Burma's notorious prisons. This demand being echoed by governments across the world is seen as the first step that is fundamental towards achieving national reconciliation in a country that has been ruled by a brutal military dictatorship for nearly fifty years.
Burma's democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi at home in Rangoon, Burma. The name of a political prisoner is written on the palm of her hand, as she demands the release of more than 2,000 political prisoners currently incarcerated in Burma's notorious prisons. This demand being echoed by governments across the world is seen as the first step that is fundamental towards achieving national reconciliation in a country that has been ruled by a brutal military dictatorship for nearly fifty years.
This portrait is taken from the long term documentary project “Even Though I’m Free I Am Not†where more than 250 former political prisoners from Burma now living in exile across the world as well as many still inside Burma have come together to raise awareness and demand the release of their colleagues still in prison today. The dangers of undertaking this kind of work inside Burma carries huge risks where dissidents are constantly watched by the authorities and meeting with westerners is extremely dangerous. More than 50 political dissidents and members of the opposition party, the National League for Democracy, have taken part in this project at great personal risk, however they have taken that risk to highlight to the world the ongoing injustice and suffering of the political prisoners in Burma as well as the people of Burma as a whole.