© Gunther Deichmann, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 1992

Sometimes when you go through your old images you come across some amazing things, the other day I went trough my files from 1992 looking at Cambodia, it was at that time that Pol Pot had just been outsted and the UN arrived the same day I did.
I was on an assignment for Animan magazine to cover the Mekong River, Phnom Penh was one of the stops, it was just like the “Wild West” back then, guns everywhere, Angkor Wat was still off limits due to the heavily mined area and many other places, shooting in Phnom Penh proved to be quiet something during that time.

One morning near our Hotel I saw this busted large water pipe, flooding the entire area with muddy brown water, a few minutes later some young boys appeared and jumped right into the muddy “current”, having real fun on this hot and humid day in Phnom Penh.

The original image was taken in color, (not much color anyway since everything was muddy and brown) so when I came across it the other day, I imported the scanned tiff file into Aperture and converted it into a cool looking B/W. As mentioned in one of my earlier Blog post I love contrast and strong colors, however once in a while or on these rare occasions the
B/W looks just as good.
Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate good B/W in particular from the famous Master Ansel Adams, but personally I shoot color 99%.

So there you have it, a rare 1% from GD.

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