Kyauk Phyu Special Economic Zone

"Kyauk Phyu Special Economic Zone" work is for the Scholar Institute, a civil society organization (non-profit) with four main concrete programs: Scholar Education Learning Center, Civic Education Program, Rural Education Development Program, and Governance Program.

The commissioned work centers to the Kyauk Phyu Special Economic Zone, a special economic zone being developed on Kyaukphyu, Maday Island, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Kyaukphyu SEZ is also accessible to the Shwe gas field in the Bay of Bengal. The oil and gas terminal was financed by the China National Petroleum Cooperation.

The photos cover the traditional livelihoods of local people in Kyauk Phyu region such as farming and fishing, infrastructures invested for the SEZ in Maday Island, Shwe Onshore Gas Terminal, the dam project in the region to supply resources to the SEZ and the voluntary portraits of local people who are affected by all those different investment activities.

Text and Photo © Shwe Wutt Hmon

February 2018

Kyauk Phyu, Rakhine State, Myanmar