Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Request QuoteRoun RY is a documentary photographer based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He has a strong interest in environmental and social issues. Roun exhibited his works at “Our Village” presented at the Mirage Contemporary Art Space in Siem Reap in 2019. He most recently took part in the exhibition "A Great River" at the Xishuangbanna Foto Festival in Jinghong City, China in 2021. He is also among five recipients of the prestigious Creative Generation Award in Phom Pehn. In December 2016, he was invited to attend a masterclass with Antoine d’Agata and Sohrab Hura during the Angkor Photo Festival. His work has been featured in several publications, including Al Jazeera, China Dialogue, Asia Society, VOD News, and New Naratif. He has also worked with several NGOs, including the, UN Women, Agence Française Développement, WHO, and UNICEF UK among others.
Banlung, Cambodia – When her two teenage daughters started going to high school three years ago, Thong Samai began selling traditional wine that she makes with herbs gathered from the forest to sell alongside soft drinks at the entrance of Yeak Laom, a sacred lake that has become a popular ecotourism destination in eastern Cambodia.
Nuon Oun, a resident of Tropaeng Thmor in southern Cambodia, watched this summer as a cement company started obliterating the side of the mountain facing his village. A gash runs for hundreds of metres from the top of the southernmost face of Phnom La’ang to the base, with diggers and dump trucks biting into the mountain’s flank like flies. “There were three explosions this morning,” said Oun from a small dry goods shop and hair salon where residents gather on a Sunday afternoon in late July.
The workers scrambled deep in the belly of the sand barge, the muscles in their arms visibly straining as they each held steady a thick green hose blasting a torrent of water. Their 1,500-cubic-meter barge was sidled against a pump station, a smaller, flat barge with a crowded deck dominated by a hulk of roaring machinery that powered a flexible suction pipe wide enough to swallow up a child. When reporters visited the pump station Wednesday afternoon, the pipe was dangling into the hold of the
Reminiscences such as this are not uncommon among those who had the opportunity to visit Sihanoukville, a small city on the Cambodian coast, before a massive influx of foreign capital, mostly from Chinese investors, radically changed the urban landscape in the second half of the 2010s. From quiet seaside town known mostly as a backpacker destination, the place turned first into a booming frontier city with aspirations to become the ‘new Macau’ and then into a notorious haven for online scam
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