{"id":21728,"date":"2016-09-13T06:44:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=21728"},"modified":"2016-09-13T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:54:10","slug":"angkor-photo-workshop-2016-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/angkor-photo-workshop-2016-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Angkor Photo Workshop 2016 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

After finishing one week of intensive work doing photo assignments in Siem Reap, Angkor Photo Workshop<\/a> participants headed to Cambodia\u2019s capital, Phnom Penh. From our base of operations at the FCC (Foreign Correspondent\u2019s Club), we explored\u00a0Phnom Penh, Cambodia\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u201cPearl of Asia,\u201d 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

In Phnom Penh, a part of the workshop, we do what I like to call, the \u201cHeart of Darkness walk\u201d. The annual Heart of Darkness walk. It’s a late-evening photo shoot during which we explore the side streets and back alleys of the night life district of Phnom Penh. We start our walk at the infamous Heart of Darkness Bar, which in recent years has been gentrified and is now quite respectable establishment, (although they do still \u201cpat down\u201d patrons to check for weapons before letting you in) and finally finish our walk at around 1:30 am, on a dimly lit street corner where many cyclo-drivers sleep.<\/p>\n

After our time in Phnom Penh, we traveled to Battambang,\u00a0Cambodia\u2019s second largest city and the capital city of Battambang province in northwestern Cambodia. Founded in the 11th century by the Khmer Empire, Battambang is well known for being the leading rice-producing province of the country.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dambang\u2019 means \u2018stick\u2019, and \u2018bat\u2019 means \u2018to lose\u2019 \u2013 so, translated literally, Battambang means \u201ctown of the lost stick\u201d. The name comes from a legend of a peasant farmer who found a stick with magical powers. With the stick, the man could control his cows just by throwing it at them. With this magic stick the peasant eventually became a king. Anticipating his days of rule were coming to an end, the peasant turned king, threw away his magic stick and ran away. The stick was lost, but is said to have landed somewhere along the riverbank of the O\u2019Dambong River, near to where the city known as Battambang is now located.<\/p>\n

Battambang sees only a fraction of the tourists that Siem Reap receives, and thus retains the feel of \u201creal Cambodia\u201d. Backpackers know Battambang as the place where one can ride the \u201cBamboo Train\u201d, an innovative way that local people devised to use the railway for transportation. I\u2019ll be posting shots of the bamboo train in my next blog post, so please stay tuned. For now, I\u2019ll share just 28\u00a0images from Phonm Penh\u00a0and\u00a0Battambang.<\/p>\n

Hope to see you on next year’s Angkor Photo Workshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy,<\/p>\n

Karl<\/p>\n

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Darrell’s graffiti wall<\/p>\n

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The white building<\/p>\n

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S21 survivor, Chum Mey<\/p>\n

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Bar employee\u00a0with whom we did a short interview about night life in Phnom Penh<\/p>\n

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Central market built in 1937<\/p>\n

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Phnom Penh’s Central market was lovingly restored in 2011<\/p>\n

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Cyclo ride, as part of our\u00a0architectural tour<\/p>\n

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Battambang’s main market<\/p>\n

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Wat Ek Phnom<\/p>\n

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Bamboo Train<\/p>\n

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Free ice cream for all the kids, courtesy of JCPT<\/p>\n

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A local monk,\u00a0children and several adults ride the bamboo train<\/p>\n

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