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Cambodian portrait

Sep 17 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

On my first trip to Cambodia in 1996, through my local guide, I hired four dancers to pose for me among the famous 12th century ruins of Angkor Wat. This was before social media, selfies, and throngs of tourists. There were probably a dozen people in the ruins on the day I took this picture. Now, every day, you can see about 40 people waiting in line just to do a selfie in front of a particular doorway. And the line doesn't diminish as more and more people come. When I took this shot, I thought it was my favorite travel image up to that point. I was shooting Fujichrome Velvia 50, and back then I used a tripod for pretty much every shot with my Mamiya RZ 67. I used to mount my best 6x7cm transparencies in Gepe glass mounts and, with a special medium format projector, I'd project the large images onto a screen. It was really impressive. So sharp.

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