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Photograph by Brittany Bisk
This photograph was taken in May of 2008 in remote Don Khong, Si Pan Don, Laos. Si Pan Don means Ten Thousand Islands in the Lao language, and in the dry season, this area is made up of thousands of little islands, most of which become submerged in the wet season. Don Khong is one of the few islands that is big enough to be inhabitated year round. A couple of miles wide by a couple of miles long, this rural island is mostly farms and livestock. The young novice monk pictured was ever so patiently and dutifully holding an umbrella over a man working on the roof of his temple on this hot day. His temple was buried deep in the forest, off a road about ten miles from the closest tiny town on this small, small island at the very south of Laos. I felt like I'd come upon a secret world down there, and when I saw the young man and his umbrella against the blue sky, I was in heaven.
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