This is the moment right before the change, but also the time where everything has already changed.
This is a portrait of a “Temporary Kingdom”.
A journey through Cambodia between yesterday and tomorrow, a project started in 2009 that tells of the precariousness of the country’s present, both from a structural and social point of view.
The XXth century – divided between colonialism, war and genocide – left the country devastated and the people alone with their pain.
Now a “democracy” between corruption and neocolonialism is ruling a submissive population.
The Kingdom of Cambodia is facing the challenge of development, in an attempt to chase a modernity that remained far away, paying the high price of those who want much in a short time.
This is a brief extract of a larger long term project about the development in Cambodia.
Riccardo Rocchi (Cesena – Italy, 1983).
I’m a freelance photographer and digital post-producer.
I graduated in 2012 in photography at cfp. R. Bauer, Milan.
I worked on assignment for NGOs in Italy, Albania and Cambodia.
I did an internship with Giovanni Marrozzini in 2010 and with Paolo Pellegrin in 2012.
Two of my cambodian projects have been published in Sette – Corriere della sera – Italy and UA Magazine, Canada.
With a cambodian story I’m also part of “Habitat”, a collective project of young photographers about contemporary living solutions.
I’m in the selection of Portrait Salon 2013.
I’ve been part of collective exhibitions in Italy, Sidney, UK, Turkey.
As black & white post-producer I work for Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum Photos).
