Hill tribes are often overlooked in our society as minorities, when they are truly the ones who have kept the tradition alive for all these centuries, making them wiser than the rest of us. They have maintained their traditional ways of life for generations. I wanted to grasp this concept by capturing and portraying the people of the Karen hill tribes of Northern Thailand in their natural state of mind along with their customs and traditions that still remain a major part of their daily life. Each individual in that village had unique characteristics about them along with ages ranging from newborns to the elderly and wise which intrigued me greatly. It was as though they each told a different story, but as a whole remained similar within their community. I had a grand opportunity to photograph these people and live amongst them for a week.
Hill tribes are often overlooked in our society as minorities, when they are truly the ones who have kept the tradition alive for all these centuries, making them wiser than the rest of us. They have maintained their traditional ways of life for generations. I wanted to grasp this concept by capturing and portraying the people of the Karen hill tribes of Northern Thailand in their natural state of mind along with their customs and traditions that still remain a major part of their daily life. Each individual in that village had unique characteristics about them along with ages ranging from newborns to the elderly and wise which intrigued me greatly. It was as though they each told a different story, but as a whole remained similar within their community. I had a grand opportunity to photograph these people and live amongst them for a week.
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