ratanakiri

Hilltribe Brao woman weaving a sleeping mat by hand

Mat Weaving – ត្បាញ កន្ទេល នៅ រតនគីរី

Ethnic Brao woman weaving a matt out of palm fronds. Shot in Ratanakiri, Northeast Cambodia. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your blog, for fun and the like, but please link to www.ethancrowley.com and give credit to Ethan Crowley. All of my images […]

Sun setting behind the mountains of the sesan river

Camping on the Sesan

I finally indulged my dream of camping on the beach a couple weeks ago. We were waaaay out in the middle of nowhere, miles downriver from Taveng (which is already just an outpost in the middle nowhere), just a few miles south of the National park. We drove out onto the beach in the 4-Runner […]

the post-stormy evening sky over taro plants

Sky after storm

As the rains begin in earnest, the swollen overtakes this spot. But for now, as the season transitions, it’s a beautiful area, right in the center of town. I love the taro plants in the foreground. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your […]

indigenous krung hilltribe man wearing a linkin park hat

Hardcore Linkin Park Fan? In Ratanakiri?

In the middle on nowhere in Ratanakiri, Cambodia; and here’s this Kreung indigenous hilltribe man, rockin’ the Linkin Park hat. He has no idea how hip he actually is. Please feel free to share my images—they are meant to be seen! Use them for your non-profit, on your blog, for fun and the like, but […]

highland minority man smokes a pipe

Organic pipe tobacco

I chatted idly with this older gentleman while were waiting at the hospital to transport a patient back home, his pipe dangling laconically from his mouth. Every year, he told me, he plants a few tobacco plants at his dryland rice farm, to supply him for the year. “It’s much cheaper than buying tobacco from […]

Red cashew fruit from an orchard in northeast cambodia

Cashews – ស្វាយ ចន្ទី នៅ រតនគីរី

Cashew fruit in Ratanakiri, Cambodia. The fruit tastes pretty astringent. I remember liking it and eating it often as a kid, but now that my tast buds have developed, I’m not a big fan. The actual cashew is that seed that’s hanging down below the fruit. In a way, cashews have transformed the lives of […]

a cambodian itinerant seller of baskets, on a motorcycle

The Basket Man – Redux

I’ve done something similar to this before, a couple of times (this one from a very long time ago, before the days of DSLR’s; i shot this with a Canon IXY Digital point-and-shoot). These guys just never ceases to amaze me—with their work ethic, their packing ability, their capitalistic business acumen. And they must have […]

taking apart an engine by the side of the road in ratanakiri.

What Roadside Assistance?

s This is what you do if you blow an engine in the middle of nowhere. I asked the owner if he had ever taken an engine apart before. “No, I’m learning by doing.” (loose translation) Pretty sure I’d call AAA. Cambodians are the ultimate in resource and creativity. Please feel free to share my […]

reflection off the river in North Ratanakiri

The Sesan river in the morning

I’ve been uploading a lot of photos of the Sesan River recently, for no reason other than my job has taken me up there quite a bit. The Se San is way up in the Northeast Corner of Ratanakiri, near the Virachey National Park and the Dragon’s Tail (that’s what the remote upper Northeast corner […]