ELEGY: Reflections on Angkor is my fond tribute to Angkor, a site that has rapidly been changing since I first encountered it—hence the title, with its connotations of love and remembrance. The majority of photographs in this collection were made in the early 2000s, when it was possible to wander almost alone through the jungle ruins, and the only people you were likely to encounter would be monks or local villagers.  

During that time, I decided to undertake a comprehensive portrait of the temples, before the influx of tourism that I sensed was to come. The changes have been so rapid that many of the scenes in these photographs have completely vanished and are now historically relevant as Angkor evolves as a major tourist destination.

The desire behind Elegy was to create an artistic series of images that captured my personal experience of Angkor and its effect on the emotions and spirit. In that vein, I asked Roland Eng, formerly the Cambodian Ambassador to the U.S. and now Cambodia's Ambassador-at-Large, and Kenro Izu, a highly respected fine art photographer known for his Sacred Places series, which includes Angkor, to each write about his own relationship with Angkor in the introduction and foreword to Elegy. 

The book is now in its second edition.

Hardcover - 210 pages; 120 images; 3 essays

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