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Street Photography in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Making images on the streets of Phnom Penh in Cambodia has become my favourite and essential pastime over the last 12 years. Pictures of people going about their lives, changes in the city and its skyline. Many believe that street photography should be people-inclusive but I do not and think the streets and building themselves can be as enjoyable and tell much about the people and how they live.

Plastic Mess in Phnom Penh

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Ian Kydd Miller's avatara world without pictures is like coffee without cream and sugar, bitter

The nightmare of the plastic and polystyrene waste scattered around the city does not seem to be getting any better. There seems to be little political commitment to tackling this problem and without that, it will never go away.

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As seen above is the collection of plastic waste at Bueng Trabek this fills the canal and just seems to get bigger. This will not rot down or go away and needs action to remove it and dispose of it in a proper fashion.

People are living with this stinking mess literally on their doorstep. The problem is caused by people actively or passively dumping their waste into the open sewer that leads to Bueng Trabek lake. The people need to start taking more responsibility for the care and disposal of their day too day waste and a much more effective system of collection must be implemented by…

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Black and White my first love.

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My beginnings in photography were in taking and making pictures using black and white film, developing and printing them in the darkroom.

Using film is part of my past and generally, now I used my digital images, taken mainly in colour and convert them to Monochrome using a computer.

Using colour digital images, you still have to be able to see what an image will look like as a mono image, some images just do not work in black and white.