Irene - A Burmese Icon

This book appears courtesy of the Myanmar Photo Archive and offers a glimpse into the life of an upper-middle-class woman during the period of Myanmar’s military regime. Irene loved being photographed, and was far from camera shy. To have a camera and to use it so freely was uncommon in the country in those days. Irene lived in Mandalay in the 1960s and ’70s, and was an incredibly stylish woman, embodying the fashion and zeitgeist of the time. Lukas Birk discovered images of her in boxes stored by antique dealers in Yangon and immediately thought she should be revived as a social media persona. He created an Instagram account for Irene and the rest is history.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English/Burmese