The woman in the photo is not smiling – and she doesn’t have to. A network of thin dark lines covers her face from forehead to chin, applied decades ago in the Chin State mountains. Her eyes are closed, and in this lies the complete peace of someone with nothing to hide. It was with such a meeting – a chance encounter in 2001 in southern Chin State – that the project began, which German photographer Jens Uwe Parkitny has been pursuing for a quarter of a century. From October 14th to 17th, his works will be shown at the AIA Khit exhibition space, located in the restored colonial halls of The Secretariat in Yangon.