These photos accompany Nic Dunlop's essay on Burma in November's edition of Prospect. To read the article in full, click here.
Listen: Nic Dunlop on photographing Burma
[audio: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/Nic_Dunlop.mp3]Boys prepare to be made novice monks
Prisoners in a police van
Soldiers taking part in an annual parade
A soldier outside his encampment in eastern Burma
Forced labour: up to 1m Burmese were compelled to improve the country's depleted infrastructure as the regime sought to attract tourism
The many faces of Burma: left, a villager of the Akha ethinc group; a mechanic (middle) and a market vendor (right) in the capital Rangoon
A soldier checks ID cards on a bus: the junta faces long-running insurgency campaigns conducted by Burma's many ethnic minorities
Aung San Suu Kyi: she has now spent 14 years under house arrest
