H.O.P.E RECONNECT - On The Road · Vol. II · Siem Reap
On The Road · Vol. II · Siem Reap 2007
Day 6. Same tuk-tuk, same camera, same bag of keychains. Different villages, different roads, different faces.
The journey through Siem Reap province continued — more streets, more market stalls, more children running out of houses, more adults pausing in their day to let me into a moment. The keychain ritual stayed the same. Every photograph thanked with a small object placed in someone's hand. Not money. A keychain. A small reminder that someone stopped, looked, and was grateful for what they were given.
This second volume covers more of the same world I had been crossing — the village paths between rice fields, the corners of markets where vendors arranged fruit and rice, the road back to Siem Reap as the day cooled.
The children in these photographs were between three and fifteen years old. Today they are young adults aged twenty-two to thirty-four. The adults are now in their thirties and forties.
A note on these photographs. Many of these images are still in colour — and that is intentional. Sometimes a face is hard to recognise after twenty years. But the colour of a t-shirt, the pattern on a piece of fabric, a familiar dish on a market stall, the corner of a village shop — these can trigger a memory that a face alone cannot. And the adults in these photographs matter just as much as the children. A market vendor. A grandfather. A teacher walking home. A motorbike repairman. They may recognise themselves first, then help us find the children who once stood beside them.
If you remember a French man with a camera handing you a keychain — on a road, in a village, at a market — this might be you. Please fill out the form below. Every identification matters.
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