Khmer people affected by the border conflict

• Prize
  Gold in Press/Feature Story
• Photographer
  SATOSHI TAKAHASHI, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  2025
• Studio
  Satoshi Takahashi Photography
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.satoshitakahashi.info/

From July 24, 2025, military clashes continued for five days along the Cambodia-Thailand border. Thai airstrikes and exchanges of artillery fire between the two sides resulted in at least 40 deaths and the displacement of about 300,000 people. The conflict flared up again in December, forcing over 500,000 Cambodians to flee and resulting in the deaths of more than 110 people. Throughout history, the Khmer people have endured the tragedies of war, and once again they were engulfed by the ravages of conflict and stripped of their daily lives.

• 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.