Tonle Sap - Life on the Cambodia's great lake

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Satoshi Takahashi, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  2009-2013
• Studio
  Freelance Photojournalist
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.satoshitakahashi.info/

Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia.
Cambodians, Vietnamese, and Khmer Muslims are living there.

I started covering Kompong Luong floating village in 2004. Many fishermen of Vietnamese origin have formed the village on the lake. They have been living on the lake from generation to generation.

During the Khmer Rouge era, they had to escape to Vietnam. After the era ended in 1979, they returned the lake and rebuilt the village.

• Biography
  Satoshi Takahashi is a Japanese photojournalist. He started his professional career in Cambodia in 2007. He had spent 11 years in the country covering social issues. Currently, he has been focusing on documenting stories of vanishing cultures in Japan concurrently with covering Cambodia. In 2019, he was awarded the Domon Ken Award for his photobook RESISTANCE, which compiles work shot in Cambodia between 2013 and 2018. This is one of Japan's most prestigious awards for documentary photography, and the book has been added to the permanent collection of the Ken Domon Museum of Photography.