I was in Myanmar last month for the elections, and spent six hours on March 22 following Aung San Suu Kyi while she campaigned in her constituency. The fellow with me was shooting digital and video, but being perverse, I took only my Ikeda Anba 4x5 and a cell phone. During the day I shot twelve sheets: six color and six black and white. When I returned to Bangkok I immediately burned up my film scanner, so these were scanned on a cheap combo-printer scanner. These are the best of the black and white (the transparencies will not scan at all).
Suu Kyi is normally smiling and waving on the stump, but here I caught her in an unguarded moment, looking like the campaign was taking a toll. She is 66 and a bit frail, and a day or two after this she suspended her campaign due to exaustion. (hand held, guess focus, Shanghai 100 developed in D23 in a hotel bathroom)
What looks like a portrait of a an NLD campaign volunteer is actually a missed shot of Aung San Suu Kyi (entering the frame at the right). I was shooting my Ikeda Anba handheld, guessing at focus and framing, and got this a half second off. Had I had the 135mm on, instead of the 210, I would have got it.
And here is one at the rally. She is a great speaker, very charismatic.
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