Bok Choy, Cambodia

• Prize
• Photographer
  Amy Thompson Avishai, United States
• Website
  http://www.amythompsonphotos.com

A farmer sells his harvest of bok choy in Angkor Kraw, a village built to house landmine victims in Cambodia.

Born on an army base in Virginia, Amy Thompson Avishai was raised in Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Belgium. She returned to the U.S. for college and later began freelancing out of The New York Times' D.C. bureau.

Amyâ??s awards include a Fulbright Grant (Morocco), SE Asia Studies Grant (Cambodia), The Paul Schutzer Memorial Award for Advanced Documentary Work,
PhotoLucidaâ??s Critical Mass â?? Top 50 Photographers.

Her work has --or is scheduled to-- appear at the Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, Washington), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland, Oregon), RaKyo Photo Center (San Francisco, California), The Griffin Museum of Photography and Panopticon Gallery (Boston), and PhotoStop Gallery (Vermont).

Her work has also been featured by Verve: The New Breed of Documentary Photographers and National Geographic magazine.

Amy teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.