13th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
That Special Kind of Beauty

Edited Photographer Note: In this photo is a Padaung woman, captured at the loom in the process of weaving a shawl in traditional colors (blue and red). Women from the Karen ethnic minority of the Padaung tribe are well known to many people from all around the world as "giraffe-women" or "long-necked."

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 01.2014
Date Uploaded: 10.2015
Photo Location: Myanmar
Copyright: © Anton Yankovyi