{"id":19420,"date":"2015-07-26T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T08:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=19420"},"modified":"2015-07-26T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T12:10:48","slug":"angkor-photo-workshop-2015-phnom-penh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/angkor-photo-workshop-2015-phnom-penh\/","title":{"rendered":"Angkor Photo Workshop 2015: Phnom Penh"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second stop on the 2015 Angkor Photo Workshop was Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city. Phnom Penh is the largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Tonl\u00e9 Sap and Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since French colonization of Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation’s center of economic and industrial activities. In the last few years Phnom Penh has experienced tremendous growth and\u00a0 modernization.<\/p>\n

Once known as the “Pearl of Asia,” it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina. Founded in 1434, the city is noted for its beautiful and historical architecture and attractions. There are a number of surviving French colonial buildings scattered along the grand boulevards.<\/p>\n

Phnom Penh metropolitan area is home to about 2.2 million. We spent three nights here exploring and photographing street life as well as reminders of the Pol Pot years, including S21 Prison and the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek.<\/p>\n

Featured image above; the interior dome and clock tower inside the restored, art deco, Pasar Thmei, (central market) which was built in 1937 during the French Colonial period.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Edible bugs for sale, Sithoway Quay<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Inspired by Jack Kurtz’s<\/a> February 2015 photo of a staircase inside the White Building<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Central market smile<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Chum Mey, one of only two remaining survivors of the Khmer Rouge’s notorious\u00a0 S21 prison<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Day trip to the outskirts of Phom Penh to visit an NGO school\/commune<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sleeping cyclo drivers at midnight<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Young man applying his earrings in a hair salon near the Heart of Darkness bar<\/p>\n

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The second stop on the 2015 Angkor Photo Workshop was Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital city. Phnom Penh is the largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Tonl\u00e9 Sap and Mekong River, Phnom Penh has been the national capital since French colonization of Cambodia, and has grown to become the nation’s center of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19420"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19458,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19420\/revisions\/19458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}