Mario Cavazos

Indigenous community of Sierra de Chihuahua, Mexico, is divided into Small Tarahumara and Large Tarahumara. I visited Large Tarahumara for a week in the summer 1996, but ended up taking pictures exclusively of children. I'd always wanted to come back and finish my ethnological study, but never did. And here it is... incomplete.

Javier Izquierdo

Collection of street photographs by Spanish photographer

Javier Izquierdo

Uwe Schober

Uwe Schober, born in 1966 in Southern Germany, is a passionate, self taught photographer trapped inside an investment banker's body. He is an amateur in the best sense of the word: a "lover" of photography. His focus is on people, travel, landscape and documentary photography, normally captured on slide film with a manual Leica MP camera.

The collection of images shown here, entitled "People of Cambodia", was captured during a week-long visit to Siem Reap in Northern Cambodia in early February 2005.

Cambodia has a very difficult past: ravaged by colonial powers and invading neighbors for most of the last century and terrorized by the brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge, who were killing and murdering its own people.

Even today, Cambodia faces an uncertain future with the advent of mass tourism - which will benefit only a selected few - and with corruption still prevalent in most parts of the society.

However, despite these difficulties, poverty and deprivation, I did not find overt despondency, misery or desolation on the faces of the Khmer people I met. Instead, I found grace, dignity and beauty.

Uwe Schober aka Rupert Beagle