The Cambodian community in the DC area is around 5000 members. There are bigger communities in the US, in Massachusetts (Lowel) and in California. Here we are at Vatt Buddhikarama in Silver Spring, Maryland, close to the nation's capitol Washington DC for the Khmer New Year festivities on April 12 and 13th 2008. The temple is famous for the high and good Buddhist education of its monks, attracting for the New Year some folks from the area but also some coming from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York.
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Introduction by Stéphane Janin, author of the blog
Cambodia is a country that I have discovered in 1990, that I have revisited on many occasions since and where I have lived permanently from 2004 to 2007. In Phnom Penh, in 2005-2007, I directed the Popil PhotoGallery, an artistic space exclusively dedicated to photographic arts in Phnom Penh. With "Khmer Abroad", from the United States, I have continued until 2010 to share the lifestories of the Cambodian people, after I had left Cambodia in 2007. Since 2010 I am back living in France.