A woman with an umbrella was walking down the aisles of Myo Ma Market

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Pushed by laziness, I came up the stairs to the hallway on the second floor of the market. There were no goods here, no shopkeepers with time on their hands. There was only the market corridor stretching out below me. It was raining lightly and the ground was wet. I saw a few people walking around with umbrellas. Like the Japanese, Myanmar people immediately put up umbrellas when it starts to rain. It is not unusual for people in Myanmar to carry their own umbrellas when they go out. The students I met just a few minutes ago all had umbrellas.

Unlike in neighboring Bangladesh and India, umbrellas are commonplace commodities in Myanmar. One of the reasons for this is the large number of cheap umbrellas coming in from China. Umbrellas are also inexpensive for local people. Perhaps this is why I did not see anyone repairing umbrellas for a living when I walked around. In Myanmar, people buy new umbrellas without repairing broken ones.

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Jun 2019 IN THE CITY MYANMAR

PHOTO DATA

No

11060

Shooting Date

Sep 2018

Posted On

June 19, 2019

Modified On

December 1, 2023

Place

Thanlyin, Myanmar

Genre

Street Photography

Camera

SONY ALPHA 7R II

Lens

SONNAR T* FE 55MM F1.8 ZA

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