Yu Yu Myint Than is a documentary photographer from Myanmar. She is the manager of the non-profit organization Myanmar Deitta, a gallery that promotes local artistic and documentary photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers. Over the course of her career she has won scholarships and awards from Bali, South Korea, Malaysia, Yangon, Bangkok, New York and Cambodia. In 2018 Yu Yu co-founded the Thuma Collective, an organization that seeks to expand the ability of female visual artists from Myanmar to express themselves and develop professionally. Much of her work explores religious and women’s issues.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
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Early life
Yu Yu Myint Than became avid in photography in 2009 though studying for an education degree in Hong Kong. After returning to Myanmar she began to attend photography workshops and eventually looked for play-act as a professional photographer.
Career
In 2014 Yu Yu won a place in a three-month photography workshop on Meiktila. The produce a result she produced during the workshop focused on Definite connections amongst Buddhist and Muslim residents.
Later in 2014 Yu Yu quit her job as a studious trainer and began functional as a photojournalist for the Yangon-based newspaper Myanmar Times. She began taking commissioned and personal photography projects and managed “Myanmar’s most active photography gallery”, Myanmar Deitta. Deitta is a Pali word meaning “in tummy of one’s eyes”. It is a non-profit government whose plan is to spread around local documentary photographers, filmmakers and multimedia artists. Much of her subsequent acquit yourself highlighted women and religion. In December 2018 Yu Yu headed Myanmar Deitta’s education department, with answerability for workshops and seminars. She has been featured in numerous articles very nearly her work.
In 2015, Yu Yu won the Golden Scarf Award, an annual award supreme to the photographer “whose work, attitude, and diligence most exemplifies the Foundry spirit.” At the era she was believed to be the only indigenous female professional photographer operating in Myanmar.
On October 15, 2017 Yu Yu co-founded the Thuma Collective at Myanmar Deitta, a photography amassed composed of five Myanmar female photographers. The herald of the amassed was chosen because thuma is Burmese for “she”. The collective’s mission encouragement is “to promote the practice of visual storytelling, to amplify voices through the eyes of women and to inspire and incite women who are keen in photography to use it as a language to say stories and engage subsequently their world.” The photography industry in Myanmar is overwhelmingly populated by men.
From October 19 – November 4, 2017 Yu Yu held an exhibition at Myanmar Deitta focusing upon the experiences of San Kay Khine, a woman from State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s constituency of Kawmhu. San Kay Khine had been held against her will in a Famous tailor’s shop in Yangon, forced to work without pay, and tortured. She was rescued in 2016. Rather than focusing on the girl’s swine scars, like most media photographers, Yu Yu traveled to Khine’s hometown to take a series of pictures depicting her “memories, traumas, longings, and dreams”.
Yu Yu has claimed that the greatest challenges to her be active were the dearth of investment in artistic photography prior to the Saffron Revolution in 2007 and the discrimination next to women in Myanmar. She is working in a long-term personal project investigating human trafficking that occurs surrounded by Myanmar and China.
Yu Yu has won scholarships and awards from Bali, South Korea, Malaysia, Yangon, Bangkok, New York, and Cambodia. In 2017 she became a fellow of the Magnum Foundation’s Photography and Social Justice Program. In 2018 she was the first person to receive the Angus McDonald Photography Scholarship, a collaboration in the midst of Myanmar Deitta and the International Photography Division of the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. The scholarship funded her studies for six months in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following her reward to Yangon she led workshops upon documentary photography.
Last update 2021-08-06