20 YEARS PHOTOGRAPHING CAMBODIA

Eric Devries

 

20 years of photographing everything Cambodia from the people, the cities, the countryside to the temples.

First time I arrive in Phnom Penh, the capital, was in March 2000 during a 3-months trip to SE-Asia.

 

 

 

 

Saveth (24) is looking out over his parent's rice fields just after harvest / siem reap, april 2012

 

 

 
   

The Siem Reap Garbage Dump. Families who live at the garbage dump side close to Siem Reap are waiting for the garbage truck to arrive / siem reap, october 2012

 

   
   

The during the Khmer Rouge period abandoned Independence Hotel Sihanoukville years before renovation
sihanoukville, march 2002

 

   
   

A young mother breastfeeding her baby while on a job cleaning Preah Khan temple side
siem reap, june 2014

 

   
   

Bou Meng, one of the survivors of the secret Khmer Rouge Prison S-21, in front of the exit gate of Tuol Sleng
phnom penh, february 2013

 

   
   

The older generation takes care of their grandchildren while the kids’ parents go to work
siem reap, october 2014

 

   
   

Young monks posing in front of their pagoda on top of Phnom Krom, south of Siem Reap
siem reap, march 2000

 

   
   

Young Muslim students in their classroom north of Phnom Penh. There’s a 5% Muslim population in Cambodia
phnom penh, january 2009

 

   
   

Two Khmer soldiers on top of Preah Vihear temple while in a clash with the Thai soldiers on the other side of the mountain range / preah vihear province, august 2009

 

   
   

Playing games with a plastic gun in the slums just outside Siem Reap
siem reap, october 2014

 

   
   

Planting rice by hand in Siem Reap province
siem reap province, august 2013

   
   

The photographer’s daughters in front of the notorious Bokor Hill Casino. Abandoned at that time but renovated recently / kampot, march 2016

 

   
   

A girl joking at one of the many girl bars in Phnom Penh
phnom penh, august 2008

 

   
   

Remains of a victim from the Khmer Rouge period found in a desolate corner of Choeung Ek killing fields after the rain / choeung ek, april 2005

 

   
   

A habitant of the infamous White Building in Phnom Penh standing in the door opening of his room a couple of years before the building has been demolished to make place for a casino / phnom penh, april 2014

 

   
   

Portrait of a monk with proteus syndrome (Elephant Man’s disease) on top of Sampeau Mountain close to Battambang / battambang province, december 2015

 

   
   

A group of Chinese tourists visiting Angkor Wat in the rain
siem reap, november 2009

 

   
   

A father is looking out of the window of the train that would take him and his daughter to Battambang but stopped halfway before the train went back to Phnom Penh loaded with timber. The track has been restored recently and trains will go all the way to the Thai border nowadays
kompong chhnang, august 2008

 

   
   

A young hill tribe mother smoking a pipe in Banlung, Ratanakiri Province
ratanakiri province, june 2006

 

   
   

A boy posing in front of a grave at the Vietnamese graveyard in Phnom Penh where families live illegally
phnom penh, april 2014

 

 

More collections / IN CAMBODIA

The Angkor Monochromes

20 Years Photographing Cambodia

Khmer Land (excerpts from the book)

 


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