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1.21.09

Disturbia…

Disturbia...
when the girls start young
shaking their hips and licking their lips
the message as glaring as the mid-day sun
then there’s the boys racing through the Burmese Buddhist temple
click, bang, bang
they play dead on the tiled floor
an innocent child’s game
but the imagery draws the bloody scenes from little over a year ago
when crimson robed monks lay fallen in a similar posture
only their pose was no fake
the blood pooled just beyond the Shwedagon Pagoda’s gate
Disturbia...
Disturbia...

Filed in: Exploration | Photojournalism | Travel

+ - 3 comments

January 21, 2009 - 5:04 am

Ryan Gladstone - sharp observations and supporting photosyou’re making cone-heads out of those boys, though.

January 21, 2009 - 10:22 am

M.M.R. - yeah. drives me crazy about the image, the technique is weak, but the content is interesting for me personally…

March 12, 2009 - 4:32 pm

emilie_meyers - Is that a real gun?

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