Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2007
Tattoo You
From the early 1990s onward Stuart Isett has been documenting Cambodian gang youth, first in the USA, then back in Cambodia, for his series 'Cambodian Gangs, Then and Now'.
The first USA set hails from the early 1990s, showing the culture of California gang members, most of whom had been ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2007
Recycling
The environmental workers I met when living in Siem Reap weren't your run of the mill vegetarian / natural fiber wearing / politically correct breed you find in Western countries.
Nope they smoked, drank, swore like sailors and drove some of the biggest and noisiest motorbikes I'd ever seen.
Many are gone ...
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2007
Have Krama, Will Kickbox
The scarf Tony Jaa wears adds to audience enthusiasm, with many Cambodians asserting 'he's not really Thai' but 'Khmer Surin'. Wearing what looks like an ordinary krama, the martial artist battles through a curiously foreign Sydney to find trafficked elephants in Tom Yung Goong, his second film. ...
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