Project '35mm Slides'
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Project '35mm Slides' |
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28th December, 2022 We have shared the photo collection by Robert Hover before, but with the running theme of this year's campaign being 'highlights and milestones,' the story of how those photos became available can not be left out.Between 2005 and 2008 Pariyatti was in touch with Robert Hover. Robert, who was a former student of Sayagyi U Ba Khin and appointed by him to teach, had taken photos of Sayagyi and the International Meditation Center (IMC) in Yangon during his trips to Burma in the 1960s and he still had these (then) never-before-seen images on 35mm color slides. Via email we discussed digitizing and professionally archiving them, but Robert passed away in December 2008, before the project could eventuate.
In 2019 we got in touch with Robert's daughter who supported us in completing this long-pending project. After about 14 years, the project came to fruition that same year. It turned out there were 99 slides; we had them scanned and the scans digitally retouched. The collection has been made available to all for free download with no copyright restrictions.
The timing was interesting as the first scans from the collection were ready on the 120th birth anniversary of Sayagyi U Ba Khin on March 6, 2019.
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BELOW: The original (left) and retouched (right) versions of the classic photograph by Robert Hover, of Sayagyi U Ba Khin meditating in the IMC pagoda.
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