10.31.2008

Hairdresser on fire

This young girl, 25, is the owner of her shop, inside the phsar Kandal.

10.30.2008

5 m

A dangerous way of life.

10.29.2008

UFO ?

No it is just a lightning in a storm cloud above the city.

10.28.2008

What time is it in Phnom Penh ?


It seems for cambodian people that Zurich and Honolulu are in the same timezone.

10.27.2008

Muscles in a bottle

A wine for muscles , what a strange idea !

10.26.2008

Old style

On this picture, we can see that since the sixties, some "modern" areas of the city didn t changed.

10.25.2008

Celebration 11-9

Repetition of the parade to celebrate the 55 years of Independance, 9th november.

10.24.2008

Picnic around wat Phnom

Be careful, some monkeys try to steal the food.

10.23.2008

10.22.2008

Mall


The city from the top of a newly built mall.

10.21.2008

National museum floor

I like this old design.

10.20.2008

Teuk Tla kids

They live in a shantytown of Phnom Penh, in the Russey Keo area. In may 2008, the house of their parents have been burned. They lost all the few things they have. Actually they live in small hut without water neither electricity. And they play in the mud.

10.19.2008

Tires shop

All are for sale, but they are second or third hand. Be careful on the road.

10.18.2008

Blue fountain

This fountain is a gift from a japanese company to Phnom Penh. The company has also given a dozen of public toilets.

10.17.2008

Hard day s night

These garment workers have finished to work today. They earn between 50 and 80 dollars per month.

10.16.2008

Desert kindergarten

But where are the kids ? At school. This is the first public and fee entrance kindergarten in Phnom Penh. It opened one month ago.

10.15.2008

A cop under the rain

A small fire destroyed 4 shops in a small path. The cop try to close the way.

10.14.2008

Not special

A popular street not different than another one.

10.13.2008

No more school

Day after day, they collect plastic bottles and cans in the streets of Phnom Penh. Some live with their parents, some not and they don t have the possibility to go school. Could you imagine them in 10, 20 or 30 years ?

10.12.2008

Mr Rabbit

What a surprise to meet this giant rabbit, around the wat Phnom. The children were very impressed because this animal speaks in their own language.

10.11.2008

Booksellers

One of the best place to buy a newspaper or a magazine. Near the monument of Independance, they are 10 shops side by side in the street.

10.10.2008

Festival Lakhaon

Yesterday, the "Festival international de théâtre Lakhaon" ended. In one week, a dozen of pieces of theater have been played in the Chenla cultural center of Phnom Penh.

10.09.2008

National museum perspective

Inside the museum you can see many masterpieces of the pre-angkorian, angkorian, and post-angorian era.

10.08.2008

10.07.2008

Flags

I took this picture on riverside, along the Bassac river. At night, a lot of young lovers come here to be together.

10.06.2008

Buddha and friends

Outside on the wall of the museum building inside the wat Phnom, there is this scene of Buddha s life.

10.05.2008

Quails

They have definitely stop to fly. But you can eat them near every markets.

10.04.2008

The blue house

But it s not the only one in the city.

10.03.2008

CCF

The French cultural center, also known as Alliance Française, a place where you can see french movies, read french books and magazines, see french artists sculptures or pictures, and of course, learn french.

10.02.2008

Tradition

Are they real or plastic flowers ?

10.01.2008

Never forget

The most beautiful day of her life.