The space between the rumpled sail and the boom on a hand-built kabang boat reveals a slice of sea and sky—and other members of the flotilla—in Myanmar's Mergui Archipelago in the Andaman Sea.

Some of the archipelago’s 800 islands are home to the Moken, a nomadic Austronesian people that live aboard their boats nine months of the year, surviving off the waters surrounding Myanmar and Thailand.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Sea Gypsies of Myanmar," April 2005, National Geographic magazine)