Elizabeth Rush Writer, Photographer

Elizabeth Rush is a photographer working around the world. Her work has appeared in Granta, Le Monde Diplomatique, The Huffington Post, Frieze, Narratively, Asian Geographic, Asian Art News, The New Orleans Review, Project Freerange, and Seneca Review. Her book Still Lifes from a Vanishing City, chronicles the re-appropriation of colonial urban space in Yangon, Myanmar.

Still Lifes from a Vanishing City

View a portrait of post-colonial Yangon and Burmese life inside old colonial buildings.

by Elizabeth Rush

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Entering Homes: A Year Inside Yangon’s Dangerous Buildings

Read about post-colonial Yangon, a failed empire being rebuilt and in need of preservation.

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The Skeleton of the Isle de Jean Charles

Learn about a tiny island community off the Louisiana coast that is literally losing ground due to climate change.

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