2013-2016 / Former colonial spaces and buildings within Yangon's financial district continue to exist through the communities who occupy them. Weather worn Victorian and Edwardian era buildings, each with their own distinct histories, remain a hub of activity. Families inhabit the upper floors, while small bureaucratic offices operate on the lower floors. Life in and around the court houses, post offices and bank buildings remains relatively unchanged from decades before. Modernity hasn’t fully entered these spaces to change the fabric of the buildings. Built by and for the British, the walls and windows of this district have bared witness to dark moments in history and inhabiting these spaces encompasses a wider meaning; not merely occupying, but offering a soul to buildings of a troubled past.
Family portraits.
Washroom.
Grandmother and child.
A view outside.
The corner of Bank and 35th.
Weathered wall.
Inside a staircase.
Typing Hall.
Occupied corridor.
Layers.
Communal room.
Sorting newspapers.
Empty corridor.
Outside Balthazar's building.
Bank Street birds I.
Bank Street birds II.
Courthouse on the corner of Pansodan and Strand.
Courthouse ceiling.
Inside a courtroom.
Courtyard spirals.
Prison bound.
Courthouse window.
Maha Bandula Park Street.
Inside the telegraph office.
Central post office.
Post room.
On the way to the sorting room.
Post office bicycles.
Street gazing.
Bank Street.
Electricity boxes.
Office work.
Asleep in a stairwell.
Communal corridor.