April 20, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - A Moken fisherman sits the small wooden boat that is the home he shares with his wife, daughter, her husband and their two children. The Moken are an ethnic minority thought to number between 2,000 to 3,000. They traditionally lead a nomadic life on the Mergui Archipelago, which consists of more than 800 mostly uninhabited islands scattered off the coast in southern Myanmar. Although the Mergui Archipelago has seen little tourism, last year 12 licenses to develop resorts were granted for the area. This combined with commercial fishing represents a real threat to the Moken way of life.
April 22, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - Fish hung out to dry on the deck of a Burmese fishing boat anchored off the island of Kyun Philar where dozens of Moken have settled, leaving their nomadic life due to increasingly scarce fish numbers. Soon these Moken will be relocated to make way for a new resort that will exploit the island's long sandy beaches.
April 21, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - Fishermen load their catch into drums of ice to be brought in to port on the Mergui Archipelago. Overfishing and damaging fishing practices are rampant in the waters around this group of more than 800 mostly uninhabited islands little seen by the outside world.
April 20, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - A family of Moken, a nomadic ethnic minority also known as the Sea Gypsies prepare a dinner of small fish and shellfish on their 'mother boat', known as a kabang.
April 20, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - A young Moken woman sits on her family's 'mother boat' at dusk. She has married and has had two children to a Burmese fisherman who has also joined her parents' in their nomadic lifestyle
April 20, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - A Burmese fisherman who has married a into a Moken family prepares sea snails for their dinner on the small wooden boat on which they live.
April 20, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - A young Burmese fisherman glances out from the shaded deck of a squid boat.
April 21, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - A Burmese fisherman ties a knot in a large rope on the deck of a fishing trawler.
April 21, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - A Burmese fisherman, documents the day's catch with pen and paper on the deck of one of three fishing trawlers moored side by side.
April 22, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - A Burmese fisherman, wearing a longyi, a traditonal wrap of cloth and thanaka, a pale paste made from bark, on his face, rests in a low-ceilinged cabin on the upper deck of a fishing trawler.
April 22, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - Du Tha Nuc at his home in a village on the shore of the island of Kyun Philar. Nuc's family ended their traditional nomadic way of life seven years ago as it became more difficult to catch fish and too expensive to maintain their mother boat.
April 21, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar/Burma - A Burmese fisherman, wearing a longyi, a traditonal wrap of cloth, works on the bow of a fishing trawler.
April 20, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - Four dugout canoes with distinctive criss-crossed oars are tied to the stern of the 'mother boat' of family of Moken.
April 20, 2014, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar - Moken children travel on dugout canoe at dusk.