Thursday, January 14, 2010

Funky Monks

Just back from a three-week endeavor to Cambodia and Laos with a whole new batch of inspiration and photos!  Despite the incredible amount of poverty and their depressing recent history, these are two seriously beautiful countries filled with amazingly friendly people.

While there, I was intrigued and inspired by Australian photographer, Deborah Growe, who not only heads the Compassionate Camera organization in Cambodia, but makes some amazing images of local peoples, orange-clad monks in particular.  This is my take on what she does so well:






















1 comments:

amylew said...

Crystal - these photos are amazing - I love the orange! Hope you guys had a great trip!