Category: Cambodia

  • Cambodia 36 exposures on film in 2022

    Cambodia 36 exposures on film in 2022

    36 Exposures is my homage to the people of Cambodia. It is also my tribute to film photography and my love for magazines and photo’s in print. The days when Tri-X was the preferred roll of film used by many photojournalists. Each roll of film has 36-37 exposures only. ​Michael Klinkhamer worked and lived in…

  • About the most prominent professor of Khmer/Cambodian History and it’s hidden secrets.

    About the most prominent professor of Khmer/Cambodian History and it’s hidden secrets.

    Jean-Michel Filippi is the most prominent professor of linguistics at the Royal University of Phnom Penh- Cambodia.For historical and current Khmer knowledge his website is a great source of information.https://www.publikam.com/en/All pictures taken at the National Museum of Cambodia by MK For more than a century, Angkor Wat has been beyond any reasonable doubt equated with…

  • Phnom Penh Brutalism-Modernism Architecture re-Discovered.

    Phnom Penh Brutalism-Modernism Architecture re-Discovered.

    Brutalism is derived from the French term, beton brut, which translates to “rough concrete”. Phnom Penh Brutalism-Modernist ArchitectureDiscovered in Cambodia before its been demolished. All images by Michael Klinkhamer in Phnom Penh January 2022. This remarkable building in Phnom Penh Cambodia.Chenla Theatre is originally opened in 1969 as the Cinéma d’Etat (State Cinema), the Chenla…

  • On a raw empty stomach in Phnom Penh Cambodia.

    On a raw empty stomach in Phnom Penh Cambodia.

    Phnom Penh 20 January 2022 While we in the west are deliberating over our viruses, self proclaimed problems and media engulfed fake doom. Being back in Phnom Penh after almost two years is wonderful experience and reconnecting with the Cambodian reality again. During my early morning walk to get a coffee and some food I…

  • Urgency for a cataract surgery in Cambodia, and my tribute to W. Eugene Smith.

    Urgency for a cataract surgery in Cambodia, and my tribute to W. Eugene Smith.

    During my Phnom Penh photography walks I regularly came across a small community of the poorest. On a small plot of waste land, right on the edge of the Mekong River. Named Areyksat, its located next to a busy ferry crossing. There are about twenty five or more huts built of waste wood on stilts…

  • Eye (I) Care for Cambodia

    Eye (I) Care for Cambodia

    At least 1 billion people have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed.  In 2016 I was asked to do some portraits for an NGO called Seeing is Believing. Two American brothers volunteering for this NGO were in Phnom Penh at the time and managed to find me…

  • Cambodia is open for photographers to discover NOW!

    Cambodia is open for photographers to discover  NOW!

    Now more than ever we like to prove to be the perfect photography tour experience into mystical Cambodia The results of some pictures captured on film are now published is 36 exposures Magazine. It’s time to get back to the life we love and support the local Cambodians that were hit so hard during the…

  • ”Harvest for the World in Cambodia.”

    ”Harvest for the World in  Cambodia.”

    NGOs in Cambodia provide a wide range of services to communities across the country.

  • Phnom Penh Photo Walks

    Phnom Penh Photo Walks

    Does street photography make you a better photographer? The definition of street photography is often debated. For me, it means, at its core; taking non staged spontaneous pictures of people within their environment in a city or within a place. By doing so showing a fleeting moment caught in time. A moment frozen in time…

  • UN-SEEN in Cambodia documentary photobook by Elly Valk

    UN-SEEN in Cambodia documentary photobook by Elly Valk

    Text by Michael Klinkhamer. UN-SEEN is a gripping documentary photobook by Elly Valk that shows us the close encounter of a Dutch sociologist and photographer with a common rural Cambodian family. Like so many Khmers, they are still living with the wounds and scars of the past wars. “Living in a war zone for 30…