Finalist
Christian Holst
Reportage by Getty Images
"Half a Century Without Freedom - Life under the Military Regime of Burma"
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A day laborer takes a break near a pier on the Rangoon River.
Day laborers are hired as porters at the jetties in front of the pagoda. They earn around one to two, sometimes three dollars a day, a meager salary rendered almost meaningless by the country’s 20-30 percent annual inflation.
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