Two years after falling off a galloping stock horse at the age of thirteen, I won the L K G Shaw Memorial Prize for Art. This put me in good stead to be the author of Ordinary Cambodia, a collection of echt observations about the mundane, extraordinary, and inventive everyday lives of Cambodians. I've been collecting and observing ever since. It has in fact become a respectable profession.

In between these special moments, I have been an exhibition designer and museum planning consultant for enormous and petite museums around the world.

Fifteen years ago, I tip-toed into the Kingdom with Jon De Rule to create Bambu Stage at Siem Reap. It was a special place for innovative shadow puppetry and live media theatre shows.

One memorable production, SNAP! 150 Years of Photography, evolved into my first book Photography in Cambodia: 1866 to the Present, published by Tuttle in 2022.

Ordinary Cambodia: Angels, Cactus, Eggs and Donuts is my next book, which my Hong Kong-based printer ignominiously calls a limp edition.

You can buy both books from select outlets across the Kingdom. They are listed at the bottom of the 'Ordinary Cambodia' page.

Photograph by Jack Meagher, CBF.

Nicholas Coffill

Photographs by Darryl Leon Collins.

If you find it difficult to get a copy of either of the two books, drop me an email and I'll have one delivered to you by VET transport.