Burma’s Plea, a beautiful 407-page photo/coffee table album of life in Burma by award-winning photographer Dimitra Stasinopoulou entitled BURMA’s PLEA: “Please use your freedom to promote ours” can now be obtained from TBBC’s Bangkok office for 1,500 baht each.

Dimitra Stasinopoulou was born in Athens, Greece in 1953. After completing her studies, she worked in the banking sector for 20 years, and later on, in the family business in Romania. Her first book “Romania of my Heart” was awarded with the Romanian UNESCO prize. Ever since then, her love of travelling to amazing destinations around the globe and her desire to share the images she brought back with her, led her to the publication of the books “Bhutan, Smiling Faces from the Roof of the World” in October 2008, “India, Unity in Diversity” in March 2010, and “Papua, New Guinea”, in October 2011. Her pictures have been displayed in Greece and abroad.

Burma’s Plea was published in September 2011 and has five chapters:

1. Prologue & Motivation – Introduction
2. East Burma: Inle Lake, Shan State
3. West Burma: Sittwe, Mrauk U, Ngapali
4. Upper Burma: Mt. Popa, Bagan, Mandalay, Maymyo, Irrawaddy River
5. South Burma: Yangon, Bago, The Golden Rock.

In the Prologue & Motivation, Dimitra begins: “I have written in the past that my interest in photography came late in my life. As I grew up, I began travelling and photographing places and, above all, people that are distant from the modern western way of life, who pursue a different path, and who have not been overtaken yet by the homogeneity of the West. I take photographs of whatever moves me, I take photographs from the heart, hoping to transmit these images and emotional experiences and discovering what it means seeing, rather than merely looking. The Greek poet Tosos Livaditis wrote, “Only when you share it does the world exist”, a phrase that perfectly sums up my need to share all this.”

This private edition is available in Thailand from TBBC’s Bangkok office for 1,500 baht each. Dimitra has generously agreed that proceeds of books sold by TBBC in Thailand will be used for TBBC activities. Click here for contact details and a map to TBBC’s office.