Floodwaters in a squatter settlement. Many residents here are undocumented migrants who’ve fled through the porous border.
Portraits at the police station after our interview with them about the scam centres in Myanmar.
We spent an afternoon with a flood rescue team working at the residential district next to the border crossing with Myanmar.
Entire first floors of landed homes were under water.
My visits to the Mae La refugee camp were most poignant. The permanence of the sprawling compound was hard to wrap my head around. The camp houses(depending on who you ask) between 30000 to 60000 displaced persons. It is the largest of all “refugee camps” in Thailand. It has been around for more than 40 years.
A make-shift punching bag at Mae La.
The camp is “walled in” by a fence on three sides and a mountain range on the other.
A camp resident’s pre-wedding photos taken inside the camp.
Note: The Go-Far programme will go into writing/editing mode for a couple of weeks. Our stories should emerge in some news publications and film festivals in due time.
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