Working for Sticks

• Prize
  Shortlist
• Photographer
  Frank Lynch, Switzerland
• Date of Photograph
  2016 to 2019
• Category
  Asia
• Image Location
  Myanmar
• Website
  http://www.lynch.ch

As we stay at home on Covid-19 lockdown, it is easy to slide into self-pity. It is also easy to forget that there are people in this world who do not live in privileged European bubbles. The labourers in Yangon Port have to lug 50 kilo sacks of rice in sweltering heat from boats to trucks to make ends meet. For every sack carried they receive tally sticks for which their reward is a few Kyat. The lockdowns in Burma deprive millions of their livelihoods. Hardest hit are those who survive just above the poverty line. For them, hunger and poverty will not vanish after the lockdowns are lifted.

• Biography
  Frank Lynch is from Dublin, Ireland and is currently living in Brig, Switzerland. He works in graphic design and takes photographs as a counter-balance to the stresses of the graphics business. Frank is a non-professional photographer.
• Awards
  WINNER State of the World 2019 BRONZE – PX3, Portraits, 2018 Honourable Mention – PX3, Fine Art, 2018 GOLD, WINNER OF PX3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris, RED, 2016 SILVER, PX3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris, Nature/Water, 2016 1st: Public Choice – PX3 Paris, Portrait Culture, 2016 9 Honourable Mentions, PX3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris, 2016