Gambling Next To A Slum

Had a hard time dealing with the wasting of money at the casinos after seeing the poverty in Poipet. In the casinos Thais, Chinese and others waste millions of baht gambling yet just 1/2 a kilometer away children live in abject poverty, they run through filthy, muddy streets and play in areas covered in garbage with open sores on their legs and arms.

During my 2 days of shooting in Poipet Cambodia I experienced poverty like I had never seen before, when I returned to my room after the days shoot I would walk through the casinos where I saw people blowing big money gambling. How f-cked up is that? Hungry children, children living in dirty wooden shacks next to garbage dumps filled with cockroaches and rats 1/2 a kilometer away and yet millions of baht is wasted playing games, something is really f-cked up with a world that allows that.