IRENE – a Burmese Icon — Robert Zhao Renhui

— Robert Zhao Renhui

Alternatively using a Polaroid SX-70 Land camera with its classic square format and an EE100 sheet film camera

I mean to open up a dialogue about the nature of audience and purpose in contemporary photographic practice

art director of the Tokyo Art Book Fair and Takeo Paper Show

IRENE – a Burmese Icon — Robert Zhao RenhuiIRENE a Burmese Icon Published by Myanmar Photo Archive Irene A Burmese Icon offers a glimpse into the life of an upper middle class woman during the years of Myanmars military regime. Irene loved being photographed and had no camera shyness. To have a camera and to use it so freely was certainly not common in those days in Myanmar. Irene lived in Mandalay in the 1960s and 70s, and was an incredibly stylish woman, encompassing the essence of fashion