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By Alastair McCready • Jan 25, 2021
Post-WWI, aerial photography became central to French rule over Indochina as the colonial administration charted remote corners of the region. Here, images taken by a French air force pilot show the empire's dying days, providing a bird’s-eye view of Cambodia and Vietnam
By Saigoneer • Dec 22, 2020
Pre-war and genocide, the 1950s was a time of great hope and aspiration in Cambodia. This collection of photos, taken by LIFE Magazine photographer John Dominis in 1957, captures that time in the Kingdom's history
By Dani Gill • Dec 14, 2020
On December 14, 1992 – after miraculously surviving decades of war, strife and looting – Angkor Wat was officially listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here, we've scoured through the pictorial archives to uncover some of ancient monument's more iconic moments
By Saigoneer • Nov 27, 2020
While there remain no shortage of photos documenting Vietnam as it has evolved over the past century, this collection of images from 1938 provides a rare and striking glimpse into colonial Saigon after sunset
The vendors plying their trade on Phnom Penh's streets play an invaluable but under-appreciated role supporting life in the capital. But using their makeshift riverside studio, two photographers set out to place these overlooked workers in the spotlight
By Alastair McCready • Oct 06, 2020
This collection of archive images depicts Phnom Penh in April 1953, offering an insight into Cambodia on the brink of independence, a country yet to be touched by the heady development of the 60s or the tragedy of the 70s
By Alastair McCready • Sep 17, 2020
Today, Manila is a sprawling metropolis largely dominated by anonymous high-rise condominium blocks, shopping malls and traffic-clogged highways. But back in the 1960s, more evident was a clean, sleek and modernising city displaying an abundance of character
By Alastair McCready • Sep 04, 2020
With 54 registered minority groups, Vietnam is a land of immense cultural diversity. Photographer Alden Anderson and his Vietnamese partner Trinh Nguyen have set out to capture this heterogeneity, traversing the country to capture portraits of each group
By Andrew Wernette • Aug 20, 2020
Spurred on by rapid economic growth, Vietnam has been one of the fastest evolving nations on earth by virtually every metric for decades. This collection of photos from the 90s, showing a country markedly different from today's Vietnam, lays testament to that
By Saigoneer • Aug 17, 2020
Today, Singapore is a city of towering high-rises and immaculate cleanliness. But as these archive images illustrate, back in the 1960s, it still retained charming pockets of urban chaos and scruffiness not often seen today
By Saigoneer • Jul 29, 2020
The shutdown of world travel has hit tourist-reliant Siem Reap hard, with visitors to Angkor Wat dropping dramatically. But inside the park it's Cambodian visitors who are the beneficiaries, as they enjoy a brief moment of tranquility at this sacred cultural heritage site
By Alastair McCready • Jun 16, 2020
The work of French photographer Paul Gastaldy provides a rare sepia-drenched insight into the history of Vietnam, with his collection of photos, taken over the course of a decade between 1922 and 1932, depicting daily life for people in the colony
By Saigoneer • Jun 11, 2020