The Indochina Media Memorial Foundation - Thailand

April - May 2004 - PHOTO : PERSPECTIVES ON POVERTY View Photo Gallery 3 People may be poor, but their artistic life is rich at Mlabri village in Phrae province – a real perspective on poverty. Despite the number of participants, there was ample time for individual instruction. While everybody took great care of their equipment during the course, this Cambodian participant was equally worried about his shoes as he prepared to wade into a garbage dump in Hot, Chiang Mai, to photograph scavengers. One participant preparing his final offerings with great care. During numerous field trips, he and his colleagues had seen slums, street children, AIDS patients, displaced nomads, commercialized hill tribes and life amidst toxic waste. Alun John presents a gift to his co-trainer Mikel Flamm on the latter's birthday. It was one of the lighter moments during the intensive training. Sarah McLean, the IMMF’s Project Director, shows course photos to distinguished guests HE Jan Axel Nordlander, the Swedish Ambassador, and Dr Suvit Yodmanee at the graduation ceremony. Trainers, participants and IMMF members pose for a group photo after three weeks’ training in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

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