One month after the 9/11 attacks in New York I traveled from my home in Tokyo two hours north by train to Tochigi Prefecture to photograph the world's largest scale models of the Twin Towers. The models, found at the Tobu World Square Park, stand 17 meters high, nearly 60 feet. The park features over 100 reproductions of world famous landmarks at 1/25th scale and park officials claim they are the biggest models of the towers in the world. It...

Nice write up on my book at VOA's website, translated from the regional Khmer article.

Always happy when works goes live! Always happy to be around airplanes. Images taken for McGee Air Services for a complete website redesign done by the awesome crew at Blackwing Creative here in Seattle. See more of the work here.

A recent interview with Siemny Kim of Kiro TV in Seattle about my collaboration with Silong Chhun for my book On the Corners of Argyle and Glenwood. I'm very grateful for yet another great opportunity to spread the word about the project..

A text message, right, I received earlier this month from some Cambodian American folks back in Chicago who saw my recent book, with my photographs of the Cambodian diaspora in Chicago in the early...

Nice write-up in the Tacoma Tribune, focusing on Tacoma native Silong Chhun who helped edit and contextualize the work in my new book "...

I had the pleasure of doing a podcast with Hello Chluy, aka Phanit Duong, a Cambodian American comic based in New York. Along with my collaborators Silong Chhun and Pete Pin we talked about my new book On the Corners of Argyle and Glenwood.

The Tiny Toones break dancing troupe was founded by Tuy Sobil, a.k.a. "KK", a 44 yr old Cambodian-American and former gang member from Long Beach, California who was deported from the United States in 2004. Working out of the Toul Tom Pong neighborhood in Phnom Penh, the Tiny Toone's house runs a drop-in center and community center for at-risk youth and street...

My first copies of "គ្រួសារ - ON THE CORNERS OF ARGYLE & GLENWOOD" arrived today and it looks beautiful. Reproduction of the images is stunning.

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Thinking about my old friend A.K. Kimoto who died 11 years ago this March from unexpected, natural causes at the age of 32. A young and talented photographer, with a heart of gold, AK impacted every life he touched and is dearly missed. After his death The New York Times published his work on opium addiction in Afghanistan, a...

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"To mark the launch of ‘On the Corners of Argyle and Glenwood’ an intimate series of photographs of Cambodian refugees who settled in Chicago’s north side in the 1990’s, we brought Stuart Isett, Peter Pin...

គ្រួសារ - KROUSAR - FAMILY

"As a young graduate student in photography in the early 1990s, Stuart Isett found himself on the corners of Argyle and Glenwood streets in Chicago, photographing Cambodian refugees who had settled on the city’s north side near his apartment. Isett entered a world which would define his practice, spending much of the next 25 years working in South East Asia, often returning to work on issues affecting the...

So I went to the Washington Post's website today to see it open with a 25 year old photograph I took in Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma) of Aung San Suu Kyi while on assignment for the Associated Press. Part of a story about the coup in Myanmar this week and Suu Kyi's failures as a leader.

What was strangest for me...

In June, 2005 I worked on a self-funded project taking portraits of Chinese tourists and Beijing residents near the outer walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Using a Rollieflex 2 1/4 camera and Kodak Tri-X film, I wanted to shoot portraits of all the people who came to the palace for sightseeing or to relax near the massive palace complex. I worked with a translator, gathering names and asking where people traveled from but by the third...