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NGO Photographer in Siem Reap | On Assignment for Kiva

Seap Rain looking at her ACE cooking stove bought using a loan from the NGO Kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

San Sotheary looking through the flames of her ACE cooker, photo assignment for the NGO Kiva in Siem Reap

San Sotheary uses her ACE cooking stove to cook soup, Siem Reap, Cambodia

A close up of San Sotheary's soup she cooked using the ACE cooker. Photo taken for the NGO Kiva in Siem Reap

Nil Thach cooks soup using a stove provided by NGO kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Leam Salao puts wood on her stove bought using a loan from NGO Kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Portrait of Seap Raim stood by a pile of wood

Leam Salao cleans the counter of her coffee shop

Rim Ren tends to her farm. The photo was taken in Siem Reap when working as a photographer and videographer for the NGO Kiva

Leam Salao sits outside her house by her ACE stove she bought using a loan from the NGO Kiva

San Sotheary show off the produce she bought at the market

A portrait of Seap Raim taken while working as a photographer and videographer for the NGO Kiva in Siem Reap

San Sotheary walks home from the market with produce to cook on her ACE stove

Heng Vichet cooks using his ACE stove he bought using a loan from the NGO Kiva, Siem Reap, Cambodia

A portrait of Heng Vichet smiling in his kitchen

Rim Ren picks spring onions from her garden

Heng Vichet teaches a class, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Heng Vichet checks students homework at his desk in the classroom

It was a great opportunity to work as a photographer and videographer with international NGO Kiva in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I spent two days photographing and filming a series of case studies about people who have taken out loans offered by Kiva to buy a cooking stove made by the social enterprise ACE. It was my first job through Storyhunter and will hopefully be the first of many.

The ACE stove is a great invention. It’s very efficient and within no time at all after turning the stove on and adding the biomass fuel there is a roaring fire that is hot enough to cook rice, stir fries and soups. The stove comes with a solar panel, so it perfect for people living off grid. It also has a USB port so it can be used to charge phones and other battery-powered electric devices and it’s smoke-less, so it’s a cheaper, quicker and healthier alternative to using charcoal which is commonly used in Cambodia.

It’s great to see how such a seemingly small thing can help improve people’s finances, save them time (if they collected fire wood) and contribute to improving their lives. The kind hospitality of the Khmer people is second-to-none. Everyone of the people we filmed and photographed invited us into their homes with open arms, were patient and had a good laugh. It really is one thing about Cambodia that makes the job easy, rewarding and fun.

Above are a selection of images from the couple of days I spent filming case studies and taking photos. You can see more examples of my work as an NGO photographer here and here.

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Greenscreen shoot for Singaporean Agency with remote video feed for director

I was contacted to work as a videographer for Team Grey, a Singaporean agency. I hired Need Image Studio as they required full-length greenscreen shots with walking, so my studio wasn’t big enough. As the director wanted a live feed from the 2 camera shoot, we set up live video feed using an ATEM Mini Pro so that the client could review the video as we were shooting. It worked well and the client was happy with the final results.

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Greenscreen studio for videography and photography

I changed my studio into a videography studio to shoot greenscreen of the sign language for the videos I was making as part of the ACCESS project about providing microfinance services for people with disabilities. The green screen worked perfectly, my lighting did a great job and the ladies from Deaf Development Programme were a pleasure to work with. Please get in touch with them if you need any sign language for any videos that you make in Cambodia.

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NGO videographer on a series of social media videos about microfinance for people with disabilities

I was hired as a videographer to produce a series of short videos for social media for Good Return and Chamroeun Microfinance to promote the product they have designed to provide people with with disabilities in Cambodia with financial services. The 6 videos show different aspects of the project and are designed for multiple audiences (financial institutions and their employees, trainers, beneficiaries) to best implement the upscaling of the project. The video will be used on various organisations social media pages to point towards more in-depth information about the project (web pages, full versions of the videos).

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NGO Vidoegrapher - An overview of providing financial services for people with disabilities

I was hired as a videographer and photographer to produce a range of multimedia materials, including photography and video Good Return and Chamroeun Microfinance to promote the product they have designed to provide people with with disabilities in Cambodia with financial services to improve their quality of life. This video gives an overview of the process of providing people with disabilities with financial services. Hopefully it will be a vital tool in promoting the services and will be valuable in rolling out the services to other financial institutions and to other provinces in Cambodia, so more and more people can benefit from the valuable service.