Thet Htoo
Myanmar
ASIA
Burmese photographer and documentary filmmaker from Myanmar, covered political, social and environmental issues including Aung San Suu Kyi’s by-election campaign and sectarian unrest in Rakhine State.
This and other work has seen featured extensively in The Myanmar Times, TIME, The Nation, Wall Street Journal and many other international news organisations as a staff photographer for the European Press Photo Agency and Zumapress.
My photography has also been exhibited, including Sketch With Light charity exhibition which was opened by Aung San Suu Kyi at the National League for Democracy headquarters in 2011.
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by Thet HtooInternational Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, commonly referred to as IDAHO, is commemorated in Yangon, Myanmar. Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality.
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by Thet HtooMyanmar youth people campaign wish Peace for Myanmar during water festival in Yangon, Myanmar.
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by Thet HtooOn the first day of the water festival and Myanmar new year the people of Myanmar came out to enjoy the festivities in Yangon, Myanmar. The festival takes place toward the end of the hot, dry season and ushers in the Myanmar New Year.
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by Thet HtooAung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy watches and greets Thingyan performers from Free Funeral Services in front of her residence before the start of Myanmar traditional new year water festival.
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by Thet Htoo13 students attending prayers at a mosque have died, due to an electrical fire, started by over heating of voltage regulator said the Yangon government. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, and the two-story building was charred but intact.
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by Thet HtooSectarian unrest has spread at Minhla and Sitkwin towns about 155 Kilometers north of Yangon after 42 people were killed in violence in Meikhtila.
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by Thet HtooEric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, visits Myanmar's ICT campus, and talks to the people from the IT field at Myanmar Info-Tech in Yangon. This is a historic occasion for both Schmidt, and the people of Myanmar.
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by Thet Htoo17 farmers and 29 police were wounded during a protest by farmers over land ownership on near the Maletto Village Tracts, Myanmar's Delta region, around 40 miles (64 km) west of Yangon. One of the policemen died of his injuries.
