Portrait of a Burmese marble carver with his face covered in white marble dust in Mandalay Myanmar


There is an area in Mandalay Myanmar where Buddha statues are carved out of white marble. the men and women doing this do not wear face masks and are therefore covered in fine white marble dust which will almost certainly be also going into their lungs


Size: 5128px × 3412px
Location: Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)
Photo credit: © Malcolm McDougall Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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