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Mention Burma to friends and most will think of Aung San Suu Kyi and political prisoners. Following the uprising in 2007 the number of political prisoners rose to around 2,000.

In this series of portraits James Mackay has asked former political prisoners to hold up their palm with the name of a political prisoner still in jail. He travelled the world to take these pictures, including undercover trips to Burma.

What they reveal is the sheer scale of the number of those who have been imprisoned, and how many still remain in jail. Such is the scale that former political prisoners from Burma are on every continent, from humid refugee camps in Thailand, to icy winters in North America.

Those featured in these portraits have suffered so many forms of degradation and abuse, jailed, tortured, beaten, deprived of food and medicine, Burma’s dictatorship has tried to break them physically and psychologically. Yet here they stand defiant and determined, not forgetting those left behind in jail. This is a powerful book which puts faces to the numbers. To read and view this book helps one to understand the scale and the suffering of political prisoners in Burma.

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