Garment Workers in Cambodia
Clients: UN WOMEN
Role: A photographer
In the past years, however, the lake and its ecosystem are coming under increasing pressure from a combination of factors, including overfishing, alterations in annual flood cycles caused partially by the hydropower dams on the Mekong River, habitat degradation, pollution from surrounding towns and the fishermen themselves, who oftentimes abandon their unwanted equipment in the lake.
As a result, water volume has fallen, leading surrounding wetlands to dry up, with fish, the main source of livelihood for the villagers, becoming harder and harder to find. With limited education, capital, and means to switch to other professions, local communities are drawn into the cycle of poverty.
