TITLE: Day-to-day life of young burmese monks.

The series was taken in 2017, when the political situation was still correct. I had the chance to follow young burmese monks during their day-to-day life. And this life is based only on the principles of Buddhism. That is a simple life, not easy for these young boys. They get up (very !) early, then they go to the streets to get food, they come back to the monastery for school and sometimes they have a few moments to relax. I suppose that with the current political situation, their austere life has not improved. I just hope that they can quickly return to their normal daily lives.

AUTHOR: Xavier HAVAUX (Belgium)

I’m a Belgian amateur photographer. I started very young, as I was only 8 years old when my father explained me how to use the Leica M2 of my grand-father. From that time, I did mainly black and white pictures in a way I can say that “I see " in black and white. When the digital cameras appeared, I continued to use my argentic cameras (Nikon F3 and F4s) for few years. For several (mostly bad) reasons, I stopped to take pictures for pleasure and that’s only in 2010 that I came back to photography, this time with digital cameras and mainly for professional purposes (still no real fun to take pictures). In 2014, on the occasion of my first trip to Namibia, I re-opened my mind to photography for pleasure and especially to black and white pictures. Since that time, I travelled mainly in Africa and I definitively came back to my first love : black and white pictures! And that’s again really a great pleasure for me! Basically I consider that I’m mostly a travel photographer, interested by nature, landscapes (including nightscapes), local people in their local environment (especially kids). Most of my pictures are highly contrasted, as is life! You can follow my travels at www.reveler-linstant.be