The digital photo editing (contrast and color saturation) was used as measure of style to enhance persons and to attach another artistic note to the series.
Within this series I took pictures of people in their surroundings and everyday life. All photos are spontaneous and unarranged. Most of the time I was in motion myself: in the car, on a boat, afoot, sometimes in the opposite direction of the object.
Everything and everyone moves in this still hurting Cambodia. Striking to me were the zeal and flexibility of the Cambodian people. These attitudes are deeply rooted – are survival strategies: unemployment, rural exodus, hunger, climatic extremes, commercial focus, new infrastructures, and emerging mass tourism require ongoing attendance and personal adaptation.
Picture #1 is symbolizing, almost in a poetic way that changes towards modernism are in full swing. Pictures #3, 8, 9, 10: the unique Tonle Sap is river, lake, living space, provider, and used to be the country's most important trade route. Today, shipping is loosing ground more and more: trucks and busses thunder across the country and even tourists avoid the slow ship cruise, because they want to get from Pnom Penh to Ankor or vice versa a.s.a.p. The people along the river admirably live in houses on stilts or in swimming villages, thus braving the changing tides by adjusting flexibly.
