Daughters of Opium
A visual meditation on women in transition. Set among Chiang Mai’s highland flower communities, where land once associated with opium now blooms with colour, the series follows women across generations, grandmothers, mothers and daughters as living symbols of adaptation, memory, ageing, resilience and renewal.
From remote hill tribe villages to farm lands, the work traces what is carried forward, what is left behind, and how change moves quietly through women’s lives.
Chiang Mai is located in northern Thailand, surrounded by mountainous highland communities where opium was once widely cultivated. From the late 1960s, government-led initiatives encouraged farmers to transition away from opium production towards alternative crops, including fresh flowers, coffee, fruit and vegetables—transforming both the landscape and the lives of generations who call it home.
Thankyou to producer Maew for helping make this project possible.