The pictures of the crowds on top of Bokor Mountain celebrating Khmer New Year are on my website…
Enjoy here…
CAMBODIA. Bokor (Kampot). 14/04/2012: Khmer tourists affluence on the top of Bokor mountain, a casino resort from colonial times recently rehabilitated with Chinese fundings.
Khmer New Year is about having a good time: after a visit to Bokor Mountain, you HAVE to eat crab in Kep and take a nap…
CAMBODIA. Kep (Kep). 15/04/2012: Khmer public enjoying Khmer New Year holidays at Kep beach resort.
CAMBODIA. Kep (Kep). 16/04/2012: Cambodians enjoying Khmer New Year holidays at the Kep Beach resort.
Thousands of people took what today probably is the best road in Cambodia to the top of Bokor mountain to celebrate Khmer New Year, the year of the Dragon, near the casino built during the colonial times, leaving behind mounds of garbage. More about this on my website later this week.
CAMBODIA. Bokor (Kampot). 14/04/2012: Khmer tourists affluence on the top of Bokor mountain, a casino resort from colonial times recently rehabilitated.
Here is the story on UNICEF activities in Cambodia I told you about previously. It is now on my website and should help you through the W.E…
It is from a time I started using digital systematically and systematically making mistakes in processing the files…
CAMBODIA. Trapeang Prasat (Oddar Meanchey). 24/12/2003: Waiting for malaria test results at dispensary.
‘Suos sdey tchnam thmey’ (Happy Khmer New Year) to all. The year of the dragon is there…
This picture is from the ‘boun pimay’, the Lao New Year. But it is happening at the same time and it is the only dragon I have in the store…
From the story ‘Laos selection‘…
LAOS. Luang Prabang. 16/04/1993: The Ancestors of the City at rest during Pimay festivities (Lao New Year).
We are spreading our toes in Kep for the next week or so. I guess it will be a bit more crowded than on this picture but still…
From the story ‘Cambodia: Kep by the Sea‘…
CAMBODIA. Kep. 19/09/2009: Sun protection waiting for Pchhum Benh (Festival of the Dead) tourists.
Happy Easter…
From a story about UNICEF activities soon to be uploaded on my website…
CAMBODIA. Anlong Veang (Oddar Meanchey). 25/12/2003: Child receiving an egg at the paediatric ward at health centre rehabilitated by MSF.
Let us pretend that you are leaping ahead in time and that you are in November 2012. And now let us also pretend that simultaneously you are attending the 5th anniversary of the Phnom Penh Photo festival. Each of the 80 photographers who had an exhibition the 4 previous years will be shown one photograph taken between the time of that exhibition and today.
Which one between these two photographs would you prefer to see in that exhibtion (taking into account that extreme metaphors are less prone to hurt local authorities’ sentiments)?..
CAMBODIA. Koh Chen (Kandal). 21/10/2011: Water buffalo seek refuge on the higher ground adjacent to the main road during the worst floods in a decade. Around 300,000 hectares of rice fields were destroyed.
From the story ‘Cambodia 2011 Floods‘…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Bat, Oudong (Kandal). 5/01/2012: Spilled rice grains at the relocation site for 120 families evicted from Borei Keila. The Phanimex company provided 25kg of rice to those permitted to stay.
From the story ‘Borei Keila Relocation‘…