This photograph was made in 1999 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I had traveled from my hotel to a slum area populated by the poor people of the city. There was a busy dirt road with big trucks going back and forth at fast speeds, motorbikes also zipped along sometimes loaded with chickens or pigs. Alongside all of this action was a shanty style hut with 5 adults and 5 or 6 children running about. I saw the old lady (grandmom?) holding the baby and motioned with sign language to a man who was near by(father?)asking if it was ok to take photographs, he nodded and I made the picture shown. When I look at the picture now I wonder what kind of life that baby will have, as I write this the baby is probably about 8 years old, what will its future be?
