PHOTO STORY CAMBODIA
THE KILLING FIELDS
PHNOM PENH: CAPTURING THE CAPITAL
SCENES FROM A RURAL MARKET
There are no supermarkets here. No sterile isles of white. No walls of refrigerators or shiny plastic packaged goods. No shopping trolleys or mall muzak. Here the isles are the orange dust of the roads and local farmers and fishermen line them with fresh goods. Some of the produce still moving.
The market is filled with vibrant colours, sounds and smells. Of tropical fruits, blood raw meats and exotic spices. People haggle. Neighbours chatter. Vendors shout their goods on offer. Scooters manoeuvre between pedestrians to pause and purchase. Around the corner, a smoke haze hovers over food being cooked and sold straight from the charcoal.
THE FLOATING HOMES OF TONLE SAP
Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia but its exact size depends on the season. During the monsoon season, its size can increase incredibly from 2500km2 to 16,000km2 with waters rising up to 10m. The floodplain has been an important agricultural area since the Angkorian civilisation. Today, over a million people live in the greater Tonle Sap area riding out the lake's rise and fall in stilt houses and on floating villages.