Through a Burmese Window

Tao Evolution
May 2-Jul 2

Since her first visit in 2000, Monica Denevan has returned to Myanmar 13 times. The American photographer says she is always struck by how visually different it is from other places she has visited, enabling her to see the country with 'fresh eyes'.

Denevan's growing familiarity and intimacy with the nation is evident in her latest solo exhibition, which features 22 images she took between 2002 and 2010 - most of which are portraits of people who live and work on the Irrawaddy River in spare waterscapes and occasionally ancient ruins.

'I return to many of the same areas and photograph people repeatedly over the years. I am comfortable in my surroundings and less of an oddity to those I work with,' says Denevan.

'I never take candid pictures; instead the images are constructed with my direction.'

Denevan continues to photograph on film, printing her work in the darkroom.