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Irrawaddy Daze
Children play ball on a bamboo raft along the Mandalay quai. Lashed together upriver, the makeshift rafts are floated down to the boomtown and used as construction scaffolding. Photo by Jason Motlagh.
A trip on a barge down Burma's river highway
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Issue: Summer 2012 / Volume 88/3
Published: July 31, 2012
Jason Motlagh is an award-winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Formerly Time magazine’s Kabul correspondent, he has reported from more than forty countries and is a regular contributor to the Washington Post, Economist, and VQR. In 2010, he won the National Magazine Award for Digital News Reporting for “Sixty Hours...