Khmer Abroad Multimedia Photostories About Cambodian People Living Outside of CambodiaStephane Janin
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Backstage
Once again, the Cambodian American artists from the Washington DC area are on the road. On May 8, they traveled to Richmond, Virginia, to perform at a fundraising event. For the artists who were born in Cambodia, it’s another routine, performing a classical dance they have surely performed hundreds of times before. For the younger [...]
Cambodian Masters: Stories Told
From the Cambodian refugee camps of the Thai border in 1979 to America today, there’s still thousands of stories that must be told.
All the confirmed artists that I have met at the Cambodian temple of Silver Spring, Maryland these last two years have compelling stories… Most of them have fled Cambodia while the Vietnamese took [...]
The Nurse
Malida’s Suong parents fled Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, and escaped to Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai border, where an estimated population of 160,000 refugees was living. Malida was born there in 1981. In 1985, the whole family finally left for a new life in a new country, the United [...]
The Health Center
In Lowell, Massachusetts, 1 on 3 is from Cambodian origin. The city holds the second largest Cambodian community in the US - with 30 000 people - after Long Beach, Ca. One of the most recent part of the immigration heritage that has built the city since the mid 19th century, the Cambodians refugees and [...]
Survivors’ Voices 3
After California, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts non profit ASRIC (Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia) has organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Nov. 13th and 14th what may be its last workshop to help the survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime share their stories, file a complaint for the trial now in process in Phnom [...]
Survivor’s Voices 2
After California, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, and a week before Pennsylvania, non profit ASRIC (Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia) organized in Lowell, Massachusetts from Nov. 6th to 8th another workshop to help the survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime share their stories, file a complaint for the trial now in process in Phnom Penh, possibly have [...]
Sopheap Pich, Sculptor
In 2002, Cambodian American artist Sopheap Pich has chosen to return and live in his native country, some 16 years after he had left Cambodia with his family, establishing in Massachussets. From 1984 to 2002, he has lived in Amherst, and eventually traveled and studied in Miami, Chicago, France and Boston where he received his [...]
Boomer, a returnee rapping destiny…
Born in 1982 in a refugee camp on the Thai border, Bunreas Pin (known as Boomer) arrived in the US as a baby and has lived all his childhood in Stockton, CA. As a young adult he got involved in gang activities, went to jail and was finally deported back to Cambodia at the age [...]
Survivors’ Voices
Far from their native country, few Cambodian Americans have a full understanding of how the Khmer Rouge trial works in Cambodia, and about the possibility to file a complaint to be addressed to the court, as witness or victim of physical, material psychological injuries. A Professor of Sociology at California State University has founded an [...]
The Graduate
On Friday May 22, 2009, Jamie Kimberly Lok, 25, graduated from the School of Public Health of University of Maryland, College Park, with an MPH, a Master of Public Health. A wonderful achievement, 30 years after her mother had to flee her country devastated by the Khmer Rouge regime…
Kickboxing in Long Beach
Long Beach, California has the biggest Cambodian American community in the United States (50 000 people), and one Khmer Kickboxing Center. Let’s get inside following Phiream Sok and Jeanne Thoek, two young people who live in the heart of “Cambodia Town”…
The Rehearsals
These last months, the artists of the Cambodian Buddhist temple of the Washington DC area have been busier than ever. “Agangamasor”, an extraordinary project scheduled at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center of University of Maryland College Park on June 27 brings the troupe a new challenge.
The Liquor Store
Originally from Cambodia, the Pich family manages a liquor store in Washington DC. Even if the times are harder now, the sales of beer, wine, soda, hard liquor and lottery tickets constantly bring people into the shop. Pron and Mak, the two brothers don’t have much time to be bored…
A Valentine Photo Shoot
In Maryland, Cambodian native Rothany, 41, owns a Photo and Cosmetics studio with his wife. If he worries about the future, he still holds on his business. The day I visited him, a customer came to have a “Valentine photo shoot”, a gift from her boyfriend…
Dancing for Obama
On January 18, 2009, the artists of the Cambodian Buddhist temple of the Washington DC area performed on the stage of the National Museum of the American Indian, as part of the important festivities and events organized in the week before the inauguration of Barack Obama.
Chamroeun’s Garage
Chamrœun Muy fled Cambodia in 1975 with most of his family and relatives. After he received high school education, he enlisted in the US Army and then in the US Navy as an electronic tecchnician. In 1990, Chamroeun resigned to open his own business in Washington DC, repairing cars and renting taxi cabs.
Sushi in Ann Arbor, Michigan
There are few Cambodian American folks in Ann Arbor, Michigan… One of them, Makkara Alexander Ju, 44, is running a sushi and noodles business, catering and delivering to more than 14 shops and locations in the area. I met him on a snowy Christmas 2008, while the Detroit car industry was down on its knees…