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Water Festival? Which Water Festival?

For the third consecutive year the Water Festival in Phnom Penh was cancelled. The first two times for a good reason. Not so sure about the third reason though…

Here is one photograph of what I believe was the first Water Festival after the war. The others are from tonight’s atmosphere near the riverside pagoda…

More about 1991 HERE

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CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 20/11/1991: A crowd watches the first Water Festival boat races on the Tonle Sap River to be held after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Peddler selling joss sticks on prayer day during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Playing the gamelan on prayer day during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Child selling fire to light incense on prayer day during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Peddler's child resting on prayer day during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Woman offering her hair on prayer day during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Peddler selling fire to light joss sticks on prayer day during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Youth selling lotus flowers to revellers who come to pray during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur. CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 17/11/2013: Bird used as an offering which died on prayer day during canceled water festival at Wat Dorngkeur.
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All photographs except the first one taken with the Sony RX1. Getting to like that camera…

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