worlds apart

Photography by Michéle M.  

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A Farming-Microfinance NGO worker looks up, past a non-irrigated rice field, at an international airplane full of tourists making their way to the Siem Reap airport.  


With 1.7 million visitors expected to come to Siem Reap this year(1), they come with the hopes of discovering "the real Cambodia" .  Yet, chances are that most--if not all of those tourists--will never see what this girl is looking at, and will neither interact with her.  The two worlds will never collide.  


At the same time, she might never see the inside of that plane either.