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The majority of these pictures were taken during my first efforts at professional photography while I was stringing for wire agencies in Phnom Penh. Some of the photographs at the end of the page were taken more recently, when I returned to Cambodia for a brief visit in October 1997.

VENDOR
Portrait of a Cambodian boy at Angkor Wat who earns his living by selling drinks to tourists. (January 1995, Siem Reap, Cambodia)
FAMILY
A squatter family gathers in and around their cyclo at a public park after a bath in the Tonle Bassac River. (April 1995, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
FESTIVAL
A woman shields her children from the scorching sun at the annual Water Festival at Angkor Wat. (November 1994, Siem Reap, Cambodia)
WEDDING
A young girl at a wedding celebration in Phnom Penh. (December 1994, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.)
SNOOKIE
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk greets well-wishers at a temple outside Phnom Penh. (February 1995, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
BLIND
A blind boy studies mathematics on an abacus at a school for blind children. (April 1995, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
RATION
A Cambodian man shields his face from the sun with his ration card while he waits for food distribution at an internal refugee camp for people who have fled fighting between the Khmer Rouge and the national army. (November 1994, Sisophon, Cambodia)
KLAKHON
The Klakhon camp for people displaced by fighting between Khmer Rouge and government soldiers. (November 1994, Sisophon, Cambodia)
ROADBUILDING
A Cambodian who fled fighting between Khmer Rouge and government forces takes a rest from roadbuilding in a food-for-work program. (February, 1995, Kralanh, Cambodia)
BATH
A young girl dries off after a bath at a camp for people displaced by fighting between Khmer Rouge and government soldiers. (November 1994, Sisophon, Cambodia)
TRADER
A trader looks at trucks loaded with Cambodian refugees headed home at the Thai-Cambodian border crossing of Poipet. The refugees fled to Thailand after fighting erupted in July 1997 between forces loyal to "Second Prime Minister" Hun Sen and now-exiled Prince Norodom Ranariddh. UNHCR has been repatriating refugees on a voluntary basis even though the flow of refugees going into Thailand from some areas of Cambodia has not yet stopped [as of November 1997] (October 1997, Poipet border crossing, Cambodia/Thailand).
CRUTCH
The result of an anti-personnel mine. (October 1997, Phnom Penh Military Hospital, Cambodia)
HOSPITAL
Un Chanda Retsamui, 25, a mine victim at Phnom Penh's military hospital. Un was wounded in the 1996 offensive on Pailin, the former Khmer Rouge city and Cambodian gem center. Un has an artificial limb but says it hurts and that he got an infection from it, so he doesn't wear it. With Un is the daughter of a friend. Because most of the wounded soldiers do not come from Phnom Penh, many of their families stay with them at the hospital. (October 1997, Phnom Penh Military Hospital, Cambodia)
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