Ta Mwe is a Burmese photojournalist and documentary photographer with experience covering a wide range of political and social stories and events throughout Myanmar. After many years working for national and international publications and organisations as a photographer, videographer and video editor, Ta Mwe’s recent work has focused on analogue stills photography, covering first the COVID-19 crisis and then the country’s anti-coup protests and resultant civil war on medium-format black and white film stock. In 2022 Ta Mwe’s work was recognised in the annual awards of Pictures of the Year Asia and World Press Photo.
Ta Mwe’s work can be seen in the stories Uprising, Revolution and Myanmar’s COVID Crisis.
Due to the political situation in Myanmar the name Ta Mwe is an alias and this bio has been heavily redacted to remove any identifying information.
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