I was there... I really felt being in front of these people and looking at the them with no power at all to change anything. The only thing to do is taking photographs to tell others the story. This is great piece where documentary photography meets today's multimedia opportunities. John had the good idea to do not add personnal comments. It should be accessible for a very large audience... large public doesn't know yet that they can see such kind of things on internet... Keep continue john, sincerely Gaël

Well at least you were able to photograph this in Cambodia. Where I live, just to the north, in a land-locked country, you're liable to get put in jail and/or get deported - minus your cameras. Same thing going on all over the country. It's a neat plan: disposess the inhabitant of the countryside - mostly self sufficient small-holder farmers - by forcible relocations and what have you got? A lot of exploitable cheap labour for the new factories owed by Chinese or Vietnamese companies and a lot of empty land to be leased out to the highest bidder (usually the same companies plus Japanese and Korean) for plantations. Call it an historical replay if you like: the Scottish Enclosures Act of the 19th century, or perhaps the Wild West same era. Criminal capitalism combined with corrupt communism. They call it the New Asia.

Thanks to John for this continued revelation on how the strong and the rich continue to sweep away the weak with a broom handle. Not much has changed since the days of Sidney Schanberg. The new Asia, indeed! Those lone and isolated makeshift homes standing alone at the end of the series were especially poignant.