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When Life Gives You Lemons (2017)

Drawn by searchlights visible from the hotel balcony, I arrived at a newly constructed entertainment district built to accommodate the growing influx of Chinese tourists in Siem Reap - alive at night but unfinished by day.

Over three days, I observed this site in transition; temporary architectures, festivity and the conditions of migrant workers who construct this space designed for leisure while remaining outside it.


 

This work was made during my participation at the Angkor Photo Workshops in Siem Reap, Cambodia in 2017.

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