A Thai riot police officer kicks a smoke bomb out of the road during a clash with anti-government protestors in Bangkok, Thailand, February 2021.
Workers stand on the face of a brick kiln in order to move bricks from the bottom to the to the top of the kiln, on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, January 2015.
A Rohingya woman cries while holding her severely malnourished child in a refugee camp in Sittwe, Myanmar, May 2014. At this time, the Myanmar government banned foreign aid groups from operating in the camps.
Children swim and play in a muddy pool of water on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, June 2014.
Royalist supporters hold up images of the late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej outside of Sanam Luang in Bangkok, Thailand, October 2021.
Miners assemble a pneumatic drill in a privately owned gold mine several hours west of Mandalay, Myanmar, June 2015.
New high-rise buildings are seen in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, April 2017. Rapid, urban development mixed with a traditional diet of meat and fried bread is a leading cause of hypertension and high blood pressure in Mongolians.
Charlie, a mahout, follows his elephants away from a river after their daily swim in Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 2020. Mahouts and elephants were hard hit during the Covid-19 pandemic due to a severe decline in tourism generated income.
Shan Ko, a professional let wei (Burmese boxing) fighter, trains at Thut Ti boxing gym in Yangon, Myanmar, December 2015.
An open-pit mine, operated by Thaidi Aung Swe Moe company, near Sintku township, Mandalay, June 2015. Nearby residents say the mine was originally slated to cover twenty acres, though it has since expanded to an unknown size.
Severe smog is seen over Bangkok, Thailand, January 2019. The Air Quality Index rating reached approximately 200, making Bangkok one of the most polluted cities in the world at the time.
Novice Buddhist nuns shave their heads at a nunnery outside of Yangon, Myanmar. December 2015. Shaving for the first time is a scary and vulnerable time for young nuns and they try to help each other through the experience.
Rice farmers operate a combine harvester in Saraburi, Thailand, December 2021.
A Myanmar citizen holds up a picture of Aung San Suu Kyi during an anti-coup protest outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, February 2021.
Volunteers from the Siam Nonthaburi Foundation pray over the body of a Covid-19 victim before transferring it from the morgue to the Rat Prakong Tham temple in Nonthaburi, Thailand, in August 2021. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, this was often the closest thing to a last rites ceremony, as Buddhist monks and family were not allowed to re-open the coffins once sealed.
Muslim women watch Ashura from a doorway in Yangon, Myanmar, October 2015. Muslims are heavily censored and persecuted in Myanmar, and Ashura is the biggest and most open celebration of the Muslim faith in the country.
A boy gathers water from a community reservoir in a small farming village near to Pathein, Myanmar, February 2014.
A pregnant Rohingya woman and her mother wait for a doctor to arrive in a bare-bones clinic in a refugee camp outside of Sittwe, Myanmar, May 2014. One full-time doctor was available for 140,000 people, and pregnant women often had to wait up to twelve hours to be seen.
People make their way across a badly flooded road in the country side outside of Mandalay, Myanmar, November 2016. Poor infrastructure and heavy rains means difficult going for rural populations.
A man lights a flare at Bottataung jetty during the festival of lights in Yangon, Myanmar, October 2015.
Smoke stacks from a coal-fueled power plant are seen on the edge of Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, April 2017. During the winter months, when coal usage is at an all time high, including in private homes, the air quality becomes dangerous. Many people, children especially, are diagnosed with pneumonia.
A Thai man, and member of the Ratchaphruek Taxi Cooperative, waters vegetables in a community garden built on top of out-of-use taxi cars in Bangkok, Thailand, September 2021. The owners of the cooperative encouraged drivers to grow the vegetables as a source of food to combat income loss and destress amidst the severe decline in work at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in Thailand.
One-thousand monks pray after lighting one-hundred thousand candles on Magha Puja (Makha Bucha) day at Wat Dhammakaya in Bangkok, Thailand, February 2021.