More Christmas...

I had a wonderful evening with my dear friend Corry...

St. Peter, Black Forest

A beautiful day in the Black Forest, near St. Peter and St. Märgen on 26th December...

Christmas 2006

Some images from our family Christmas get together.

Snapshots from a Christmas dinner

Some images from a recent Christmas dinner...

Khmer Boxers revisited

While in Cambodia for this year’s Angkor Photo Festival, I also stopped by the Khmer boxer training camp where I shot the material for my book.

I was pleased to learn that two of the boxers I had the chance to photograph last year have now become full time professionals in Thailand. I also took the opportunity to shoot some portraits of the boxers who were present that afternoon.

(I deliberately did not want to give them directions for the photo shoot and only told them to do whatever they wanted to do).

Mental Illness Patients

Further to a previous entry on the portrait of a mother with three mentally ill children, I am now posting the full story. For a day, a fellow photographer and I had the chance to accompany two nurses on their day trip to a few villages surrounding Siem Reap. The two nurses are part of an outpatient unit for mentally ill patients at the local hospital in Siem Reap. The unit is run by Dr. Lonh Borin.

The first set of images show the three siblings (two brothers and one sister) who suffer from various mental illnesses in various stages of seriousness. The youngest has regular violent outbreaks so that he remains chained to his hut most of the day.











At our next stop we talked to a 45-year-old mother who suffered from mental illness but now appears cured. She runs her own business nowadays, selling food to tourists visiting the temples while she also looks after her grandchildren. She talked very openly about her previous mental disorder.





The last set of images show two patients with depressive disorders.