In the Eye of the Burma Cyclone

James Whitlow Delano gives a first-person account of being In the Eye of the Burma Cyclone. You can see his pictures here. As a post -script, Delano says that he may not be able to return to Burma after his pictures are seen because it poses some tough questions about the true nature of a government that already had a reputation for brutality. And adds, that if that is the price for reporting the neglect shown there -- so be it.

Three days of driving rain had already begun to ruin the dry season rice harvest, leaving the crop under water, before I returned to Yangon from Bago on the day the cyclone struck.

I was in Myanmar (Burma) entirely by chance, working for a South Korean client on a documentary on the lives of two men living in exile since the 1988 crackdown. I was photographing places and things that represented their lives in Burma.

Then the storm turned everything on its head.

9 June 2008 by Melissa Lyttle

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