| Over the last 20 years my photography has moved from album artwork for iconic rock bands such as the Pixies, through design and advertising to a more documentary approach. My current work involves detailing and documenting chronic disability in Cambodia through the help of The Cambodia Trust, a UK based Charity that operates in the poorest provinces of Cambodia. This is a long term project: a doorway into a harrowing and often shocking Third World approach to things we might take for granted in the West; medicine, caring of patients and general awareness of disabilities within Khmer culture. I am also very interested in working within cultures that are trying to re- establish themselves and gain a new foothold in the 21st century. |
| South East Asia offers great potential where societies ravaged by civil war try to accommodate rapidly growing industries like travel and tourism. Meanwhile the gap between the rich and poor, the able- bodied and disabled, educated and non educated is forever growing wider and heavily reliant on the actions of International NGO Organisations. I am rooted in traditionalist methods of picture making using B&W film and range-finder cameras and although I am now using digital methods to output my work for clients, the origination is always from film. I am based between the UK, Thailand and Cambodia preferring to hand print my own photographs back in the UK. I am available for International assignments including stock photography, commission, reportage, exhibitions and book publishing projects.
Simon Larbalestier 2006 |
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