I was wandering around Sneinton Market Avenues this morning on a wet and drizzling day. The photos. Outside the “Buy Our Hands” Studio, I met Shunn. She was writing on a chalkboard so I started a conversation with her.
Shunn was visiting Nottingham from London to visit a friend. I asked her if she was a student. Shunn said she used to be a student but now works as a researcher for a not for profit organisation. When I asked what she researched, she told me human rights and women’s rights. She’s also a film maker of documentaries. Shunn is Burmese and was showing a film at One O’Clock and invited me to attend. I told her I was meeting my wife for lunch so wouldn’t be able to accept her offer.
Shunn was a willing sitter for my strangers project and asked me if I would be publishing the photos. I told her my 365 project and Insta’. We exchanged Instagram handles.
Shunn’s Instagram account and webpage gives further information. She’s a documentary filmmaker, feminist activist and an anthropologist in the making, who works with the marginalised communities by using different mediums. She was born and raised in Yangon, Burma. With an extensive ethnographic research experience in the last 10 years in Burma, her area of interests are displacement, rebel memories, feminism, diasporic identities, labour, social reproduction, dissidents of the state and revolutions.
I told Shunn, it was a pleasure to meet her and wished her well in her research and film making.
I thought the black and white portrait was apt for a documentary filmmaker
What a beautiful story. We lived in Yangon for two years, so I know a little about the country and its people. What a brave and interesting young woman and what a lovely image and back story to your 'stranger', Shunn.
@busylady thanks Judith , it is a good back story for sure
@salza thanks sally she was
@granagringa thanks Madeline
@bkbinthecity cheers Brian
@rensala Thanks Reneee , everyone has a back story :)
@sangwann thanks Dione , I always focus my camera on the eyes :)
@fbailey thanks Felicity , glad you think so
@kjarn thanks Kathy , you are right :)
@jamibann thanks Issi , I don't know much about Burma , Shun was lovely to meet
@boxplayer thanks Box' , I think so too
@amyk thanks Amy , for your lovely words
@maggiemae Maggie , Shunn was a lovely person
@mccarth1 thanks Kerry for your lovely words
@elza many thanks for your visit
@corinnec Merci Corinne, I like your observation and logic , your support is most welcome
@marlboromaam Mags, thanks , I am pleased with this stranger meeting :)