In Kampot, as well as in the rest of Cambodia most generally, we truly fell in love for the people.
In fact, in Cambodia we met some of the most beautiful, happy and friendly people ever met in years of travelling in south-east Asia, where people usually tend to be more physically distant and mentally reserved.
There, we found playful people who love to joke and who can naturally hug you. There, we found a population with inner moral values in a strongly-rooted buddhist country. Living close to them during several months, we really admired their contentment and natural ability of adapting themselves to whatever is coming to them as much as we also admired their authentic solidarity and mutual respect. Their proud and strong temper is usually very well balanced with their gentleness.
And as photographers, we have been charmed by the beauty of their features and their easy and generous smiles, making them perfect models for captivating travel portraits.
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[ Photos by Lorenz Berna, Text by Florence Lepavec ]
An old Khmer lady smoking a cigarette. Women, who usually don't smoke, can start smoking when getting old.
Portrait of a gentle old man.
Baby sleeping in a hammock in front of a local shop in Kampot.
Noung, Eco-tour guide of Siem Reap and founder of Driversrey, a small organisation of women tuk tuk drivers and guides in Siem Reap and Angkor Wat
Cambodian woman wearing a traditional hat made with palm leaves.
A local "palm sugar man". His job is to collect the nectar from the top of the palm trees and later cook it into palm sugar.
Portrait of a cambodian woman taken during a long wait at the Kampot train station.
School boys attending an environmental event in Kampot
Seller boy in a market stall.
Wood-coal seller waiting for customers in her hammock.
A classic break in Cambodia : sleeping wherever it is possible is good enough to do so.
Family on a motorbike, a very classic scene of Cambodia.
Punk is not dead in Phnom Penh.
Little girl holding her younger brother in her arms in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.
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