Verge Community

• Photographer
  Thomas Phoon Ngai Voon, Malaysia
• Studio
  Thomas Phoon

The poor families formed a little community right in the heart of the city, alongside the
railway tracks and an old abandoned depot. The adults are forced to work long hours daily
to earn a meagre sum that they have very less time to take care of their children, leaving
them with the elders at home. Most of the children do not go to school because their
parents cannot afford to, and education comes along when volunteers donate old books for
them, thus they linger around their surroundings which they consider their playground and
home.
This series is an illustration of the people within their living environment, an
expression of life in this little enclave right in the middle of the bustling city of
Phnom Penh, Cambodia.