Lunasara Studios Photography

Hundreds of people survive by anchoring their homes and businesses at the migrating shores of Cambodia's largest lake as it's shores expand and contract with every wet and dry season . To give their houseboats a protected anchorage they move their homes to follow the shore and use their smaller boats to head out into the deeper waters of the lake to fish. Or they build homes so close to the changing shoreline that they build roads on levees and homes on stilts to accommodate the flood waters when they arrive. They fish during the wet season and farm rice and trade during the dry season when their land reappears. Those without land or houseboat make their living ferrying goods and services back and forth; fish from the lake, fruits and vegetables from the dryer land. And the road that connects the land and sea supports vendors and craftspeople who offer all kinds of goods and services like small stores, beauty parlors, woodworkers, sewing centers and basket vendors. Many comm...