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There’s a point in time after yet another reckless headfirst turn into a hurtling fury of construction vehicles that your heart ceases to alien-burst through your chest and you just decide to lean back and accept your fate. As with other aspects of Cambodia’s recent development, the journey along the two-lane highway between Phnom Penh…
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Two years after taking one of my favorite photographs, I travel back to see the girl in the picture, with a surprise in store.
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A journey of the soul through the heart of Cambodia. Shot in and around Kampot and Kampong Cham province. Model: Reyna Resognia.
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Too often on the increasingly congested highway of the Southeast Asian banana pancake trail, you hear of some ‘amazing’ place that people have just returned from. Some wide-eyed European backpacker will excitedly drop this adjective with a, eye-rolling, head-bobbing conviction as if they’d been to heaven and back. I was in Sihanoukville, a rapidly touristed…
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