I saw this woman selling fruit on Monivong Blvd. in Phnom Penh Cambodia. She was squatting in the shade of a of a small tree between a boundary wall and a 4×4 vehicle. I love the whimsical look on her face. Her face says a thousand words.
Category Archives: Cambodia
Cambodia Stills
Laundry dries on the roof of a Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Cured fish at the Central Market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
On the Road to Kampong Chhnang…
Scooter culture…
A store on the side of the road sells BBQ snakes, rats, and frogs… Cambodia.
Pics from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Drive-bye shooting.
These shots are taken from a ‘tuk-tuk’, a motor bike with a carriage attached to it, so there’s camera shake – but these are the ones that are passable…
Two Buddhist Monks.
A stone mason repairs cobble stone.
Listless…
Cambodian Mine Action Centre
I returned to Cambodia in August of 2012 to work with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre – CMAC to shoot documentary content.
These are ‘bomblets’ or submunitions from a cluster bomb artillery round, they are ‘Anti Material’ in design meaning that they are designed to destroy vehicles, tanks, and armaments.
Looking into the base you see a the copper lining of a ‘shaped charge’. When it hits it’s target the shaped explosive charge will crush and invert the copper cone into a molten ‘slug’ which will punch its way through armor and metal plating destroying the target.
The bomlets are stacked in clusters of seven, one surrounded by six, here on a base plate. The ribbon or ‘drogue’ on top acts like a parachute – orienting the devise so that the base with the copper cone will be facing down when it is initiated.
The clusters of seven are stacked one on top of the other inside the artillery round.
This artillery round holds 56 bomblets. The timed fuze, missing from the top of the round here, will initiate the charge in the yellow tube above and the charge will pull the cluster of bombs from its casing, it then ‘blooms’ into a hail of deadly bomblets.
Preah Barum Reachea Veang Chaktomuk
Ceremonial Hall at the Royal Palace of Cambodia
Fields of Green
A family harvests a crop of rice grown on their land. Cambodia produces an average of 5 million tons of rice a year.
A Temple on a hill about 35kms outside of Phnom Penh.
Kids sell fruit on the road leading to the South Gate of Ankor Thom Temple complex.
Lotus Flower
Beside the ‘highways’ of Cambodia – lotus flowers are farmed in vast tracts of water…
Wild Fig consumes Ta Prohm
Acheologists and the like argue about what to do with regards to these trees that root themselves in temple ruins. Out of all the images I captured of the Temples of Cambodia – this images draws the most breath – why would one try to reverse this process? These temples have existed in these jungles for, on average, a thousand years and, I’m sure, will stand for a thousand more. My vote: let nature take its course…
Iron Bed
Iron Bed
What was once a children’s school was turned into the infamous ‘S 21′ detention camp under Pol Pots regime. Civilians suspected of being ‘enemies of the state’ were brought here and tortured – often to death. Survivors were taken to ‘the killing fields’ and were executed. On the wall in the background is an image of the corps found on this iron bed when Cambodia was liberated from the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pots regime. The victim had had their throat slashed… The ammunition box on the bed was what prisoners were given to use as a toilet, next to it lies an iron bar shackle…
