Exhibit: State of Place – Photos from the Thai-Burma border
Jack Picone’s striking photos of the lives of displaced Burmese and ethnic minorities living along the Thai-Burma border make up the current exhibit in the North Gate Hall gallery. From the accompanying text:
On the porous, shambolic border of Thailand they scrape a living as cheap labor, in sweatshops and in rice fields, on building sites and in grimy brothels.
With no official status or “state of place”, their existence is suffused with fear and hardship. At any time they may be captured and deported on the whim of the Thai authorities, and returned in cattle trucks to the evil regime in Burma they have fled.
Yet still they flock here to the Thai-Burmese border, striving to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives.
The photos will stay up until May 4. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm. (Map)
Full details available here.








