Last November, I had the chance to travel to Siem Reap with a client to shoot for about a week. I had been to Cambodia a few years earlier on a longer Southeast Asia trip and therefore wasn’t in too much of a rush to run to all the tourist destinations on this business trip (I wouldn’t have had the time anyways). Yet, I made it to Angkor Wat and many other Angkor sites twice within a week and was able to combine it with the shoots we did. It was an intense but great week. I even shot like half a roll of film.

As Bangkok was our only stop in Thailand, we quickly moved along to Cambodia, more specifically to Siem Reap. We spent a few days in this very touristy city and were surprised by how expensive things were in tourist Cambodia. We hired a tuk tuk driver for a day to take us to the most important temple sites. Just like everyone else who visits Angkor, we started off at Angkor Wat shortly before the sunrise. Despite all the people, it was beautiful.