mythicaldude

More about my upcoming photo exhibition

Still working on pulling it all together...

 

The exihibition will be at the new Four Faces Gallery in Siem Reap.

The gallery is run by an excellent Dutch photographer named Eric De Vries.

My Photo Exhibition

I received an invitation to do a photo exhibition at the new Four Faces Gallery up in Siem Reap, Cambodia for 4 weeks starting on Friday May 29th and I'm pretty excited about that. More about this later...

I didn't end-up going to Bangkok for the Things Asian Press party last week... too busy with things here in Phnom Penh.

The book using my photos has finally been published!

Years in the making, To Myanmar With Love - A Travel Guide for the Connoisseur – has finally been printed and published, so I’m planning to head over to Bangkok for 4 or 5 days later this month for the launch party hosted by the publisher - Things Asian Press of San Francisco.

The book uses my photos exclusively and I have credit on the cover of the book as well as a photo and short bio in the back of the book. Pretty cool eh?

Check out these links for more info:

http://www.thingsasian.com/contributor/tomyanmarwithlove

http://weblogs.thingsasian.com/tablogs/page/toasiawithlove

http://www.thingsasianpress.com/detail_tmwl.htm

 

Oh so busy

Sorry for the lack of new posts, but I've been busy busy busy.

A few recent shots to tide you over until I'm a bit less lazy, uh-er.... I mean busy!

 

At The Chinese House, a bar here in sunny Phnom Penh, Cambodia 

Phnom Penh Street Shots

 

   

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

  

 

 

Big stinky pile of garbage

I went out to Phnom Penh's infamous Stung Meanchey garbage dump, the only one for the entire city 1.3 million people the other day. I had not been there for more than three years and things looked about the same; an absolutely enormous mountain of stinky garbage with a steady flow of many truckloads each and every hour of the day and night dumping more and more garbage onto the steaming heap.

Here's a New York Times article from 2003 about the place.

And as each truck plops its load of rubbish throngs of people, garbage scavengers, begin to methodically poke and pull at the putrid piles in search of their plunder - anything that possibly be reclaimed, recycled, reworked and then resold.

 

   

 

   

 

Entire families, hundreds it seems, live and work in and around the dump and form the core of a fascinating social and economic community and culture. Pushcart vendors regularly service the hundreds of workers. At least several entrepreneurs set-up semi-permanent stands (dump-top cafes?).

And remember that virtually all of this garbage has already been sifted through one or more times by unrelated teams of scavengers who operate locally at the source - where the garbage was originally dumped.

 

   

 

How can you help? Search around... I can't really endorse or even reccomend any of the dozens of organizations that deliver assistance to help remedy the plight of these children and their families.

If you search around you'll find lots of places with lots of ideas. Here's one at random.

Here's another.

 

And on a completely unrelated note, I have still failed to try to eat the so-called "baby duck eggs".

Lady Boy Ham Bone

This lady-boy was such a ham.

 

  

Other sights quickly captivated my attention as I wandered aimlessly, camera in hand.