EDITOR’S NOTE: Click here to see an updated version of this story published by Voices of New York in April 2014. NEW YORK — A drizzly autumn afternoon in the Bronx has camouflaged… Continue reading
This is the first of a four-story series on Sleepless in Singapore exploring Cambodian culture in North America & more specifically, the New York City borough of the Bronx. Welcome to “Cambodians in… Continue reading
Transformative. That’s the word I use when people ask me, “How was your trip to Southeast Asia?” Nine months have passed since my return to North America, yet I still think about that… Continue reading
These are the people — the culture — the stories of Southeast Asia through my camera’s lens. Here you’ll find intimate, black and white, portrait-styled photographs of Thai tattoo artists, Malaysian gangsters, Cambodian… Continue reading
Glasses clink around me. People shout, “Chul Muy!” Someone scoops more ice into my cup of beer. Everyone smiles. ‘Chul Muy’ is the Cambodian word for ‘cheers’ and there was no lack of… Continue reading
Chum Mey, a frail, white-haired Cambodian man in a pinstriped shirt stands beneath the shade of an oak tree at the gates of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, a Khmer Rouge prison camp in… Continue reading
My Cambodian guide Run Phyros tells me about how the Khmer Rouge exterminated his entire family as we leave the Killing Fields. Nearly every middle-aged Cambodian I’ve talked to has felt the wrath… Continue reading
Thousands of craniums stare back at me with cold, petrified expressions. Spider webs dangle in eye hollow sockets. Thousands of skulls — piled as a high as a small apartment building — loom… Continue reading
The only thing I can smell is gunpowder. It flirts with my nostrils. The sun is sinking behind lush green hills somewhere in the Cambodian countryside. It’s a sticky, humid, dusty mess out… Continue reading
