‘After The Storm’ — Photographs of Monks Released From Burmese Prison

Posted on January 26, 2012

James Mackay, a documentary photographer whose work was featured in ‘Voices From Burma‘ — an event presented last year by Voice of Witness, the Magnum Foundation, the Open Society Foundations and PEN American Center at the Asia Society in New York — has released a new collection of photos chronicling formerly imprisoned monks returning to their monastery after years in prison. Click here to view this stunning collection of photographs.

Click here to learn more about Nowhere to be Home, Voice of Witness’ collection of oral histories from Burma and the diaspora.

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Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.