Photojournalist leaves Cambodia with conflicting emotions

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue Nov 14, 2017 8:06 am

Leaving Cambodia: How do I do right by the place I called home?
Irish photojournalist Lauren Crothers on the conflicting emotions she is left with after seven years in Cambodia

When I last wrote for Generation Emigration in The Irish Times in 2011, I had been in Cambodia for just over a year. I was happily ensconced at a local English-language newspaper, The Cambodia Daily, a scrappy enterprise founded in 1993 with a vow to tell “All The News, Without Fear or Favour”.

Hired by the paper’s Irish then-editor-in-chief, Kevin Doyle, I started off editing and soon progressed to chasing stories and taking photographs of my own. I was deeply in awe of my Cambodian colleagues, whose skills at being able to get scoops by sidling up to high-ranking members of government at swimming pools, for instance, reminded me again and again of the kind of stuff that truly great reporters are made of...

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty ... -1.3287439
Some good photos.

merlevedderman · Post by **merlevedderman** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:44 am

Good photos and a rather earnest op ed piece from someone with a clear emotional, social, and cultural investment. A picture may be worth a thousand words (especially from a skilled photojournalist), but she spoke her thoughts pretty damned effectively in addition to that. Thanks for the link.

mike.thompson · Post by **mike.thompson** » Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:05 am

Great article and even better images - Some excellent observations made.