Hidden Lives

THAILAND | Sunday, 2 December 2012 | Views [409] | View Smaller Image

This young girl and her father were approved for resettlement by the US Department of Homeland Security in 2009. Her mother is still waiting for UN refugee status, so, with her family having chosen to stay together, the daughter remains trapped in the limbo of her birth place – a refugee camp.

Tags: refugee, un, unhcr, thailand, burma, refugee status, portrait, girl

Surrounded by beautiful scenery you could, at times, be forgiven for forgetting that this is a refugee camp. But refugees aren’t allowed an income. They aren’t allowed to farm this land. To be allowed to have a market stall to sell their produce, they have to pay bribes to the officials.

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Hide and Seek with a camera.
Whenever these two young refugees saw the camera they sprinted away at top speed, but inevitably sneaked back to view every photograph.

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