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Some women carry large bundles of bananas on their heads, while others hold items in their hands. The background shows hanging bags and more shoppers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d80f491a-bfa7-40b3-85bf-6914e87bd47e/BurmaBlenkinsopForTanWorkshop+%283%29.jpg Gallery/Philip Black and white photo of three children riding on a moving train or tram, with a blurred background indicating motion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/89cbabbc-99ac-4f37-b98e-a5fd5f7297dd/BurmaBlenkinsopForTanWorkshop+%282%29.jpg Gallery/Philip Two sepia-toned landscape photos side by side. The left photo shows a rural scene with trees, some smoke, and a dirt path or road in the foreground. The right photo depicts a rural scene with trees, a small rustic house, and a mountain in the background, with tall grass in the foreground. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery/piyavit daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/1d1b491b-3e19-4a9f-a5cb-f91aa68ff260/IMG_0571.jpg Gallery/Piyavit A construction site filled with stacks of bricks and a worker sitting nearby, with bricks arranged on the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/2ab7ffdf-8b15-4ffc-8c31-268432b14f3a/_DSC2699.jpg Gallery/Piyavit Person holding a yellow light standing near damaged boats and debris at a dock during nighttime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/354e0540-c00a-417e-a205-29034117fddf/_IMG0184.jpg Gallery/Piyavit Group of people sitting and mourning near a burning pyre outdoors during cloudy weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/38cfe59c-f0aa-4b4f-93c4-558b11c5613f/untitled-DeNoise.jpg Gallery/Piyavit https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/45cc5376-8ba0-4ddc-ab3c-6950da9b8bdb/PH_DSC6743.jpg Gallery/Piyavit A young man sits on a vintage red sofa in a damaged neighborhood with debris and damaged houses around him, under cloudy sky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/14cc585b-5e18-460e-85b2-54de581b4b3a/for+website.jpg Gallery/Piyavit Group of Buddhist monks and a man gathered indoors, some seated at tables with food and drinks, others standing or walking, in a decorated room with religious artifacts and colorful banners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/ef2be0a2-ca1b-4a6e-9e85-f6eb0bd66853/F004.jpg Gallery/Piyavit A boy selling bananas on a bicycle cart with bananas on top in a black and white photograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/3e1e261f-f3c1-4e27-bdb7-dfbb77af2003/pt_la_09_9_1923_8109101_org.jpg Gallery/Piyavit View through a shop window at night showing a woman sitting at a cluttered table, looking at her phone, surrounded by handbags and bags, with city lights and street scene reflections visible in the glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/e1550f9d-6b5e-4c02-95ab-3e7f6786e4d0/pt_warondrug_001.jpeg Gallery/Piyavit A group of soldiers carrying rifles walking along a dirt path through a rural, mountainous landscape with traditional huts and lush vegetation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/f829c60a-4599-4336-b51c-6d49b28f4b11/02010.jpg Gallery/Piyavit A man standing in a stream with a stick, wearing a long-sleeved shirt and plaid pants, with a chain around his neck, in front of a wooden fence and trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/e7839221-07fd-4105-8186-dd228378af85/pt_warondrug_018.jpeg Gallery/Piyavit A soldier in camouflage uniform standing in front of a military vehicle with other soldiers seated inside, partially visible, in the background. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/register-page daily 0.75 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/87f9438b-921c-4fcf-88bd-2cf68c6eb275/imgg-demo-xk2iGDRi.png https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-piyavit-thongsaard daily 0.75 2026-05-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d6375daa-8ac6-49e7-a49a-5f396359e940/%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%A7%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard Photographer: Piyavit Thongsa-Ard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/59fe3e55-ee82-4a13-add1-a0d9f6c84a8d/Hiyian_002-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/e94bc4fe-fc7b-4062-a545-f3ea9542b5d2/Telesa_003.1.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard Kalighat: At the Edge of Being Seen - India, 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/0fc8f44f-b449-4e6d-9929-eeac2b36eb07/4000_001.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard Between Survival and Passage - Li Fishing and the Future of Migratory Fish in Siphandone, Southern Laos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b3431a59-3eaa-48ff-a0f9-796ab38027b4/Tonelesap.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard Tonle Sap: Lives Shaped by the Lake - Cambodia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/f846ba22-c2cc-4e3a-878b-41f320f64508/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_011.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard When the Water Came: After the Xe Pian Dam Collapse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/55498012-b0ce-4b70-aecc-68737092f242/DKBA+010-De.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard The Road That Disturbed a Ceasefire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d6077aec-b9bf-475c-89c7-f513b71ec8b1/pth00040-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard Bihar: Beneath the Kiln Smoke - India 2003 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/948bae7b-7231-4868-97dd-6503750fd2ab/ggg.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard After the Earthquake: Life in Nepal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/9adb4e65-8de8-49c1-92d9-d9a7197e6039/pt_la_kip+inflation__0002.jpg Gallery- Piyavit Thongsa-Ard Laos: The Price of a Falling Kip https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/3ff5e060-42d2-4c23-a9d3-a37436d17073/web_piyavit-3-De.jpg https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-piyavit-india daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/38cfe59c-f0aa-4b4f-93c4-558b11c5613f/untitled-DeNoise.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - India Kalighat, Kolkata, India, 2003 - A ward in Kalighat becomes a temporary refuge for men pushed to the edge of the city’s social order. Some sleep. Some wait. Others sit in silence beneath the high windows, their lives gathered into a single room of beds, light, and stillness. Kalighat is best known as a place of devotion, but beyond the movement of pilgrims and the language of faith lies another reality: the lives of those made almost invisible by poverty, sickness, and abandonment. These men are not presented here as symbols of pity. They are witnesses to a harder truth - that dignity does not always arrive through institutions or belief, but sometimes survives only in the small spaces that continue to receive the forgotten as human beings. In this room, silence becomes evidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/92e33676-a3ab-48d5-8dc0-2c54591a0084/Telesa_001.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - India Kalighat, Kolkata, India, 2003 - A young man lies on a narrow bed inside the shelter, his gaze meeting the camera from a place where illness, exhaustion, and abandonment have already taken much from him. There is little in the frame to explain his full history — no family name, no diagnosis, no account of how he arrived here. What remains is quieter and more difficult: a body still breathing, a face still asking to be recognized, and a life suspended between care and disappearance. The photograph does not ask us to look at poverty from a distance. It asks something more direct: When a human being has been pushed this far to the margins, what responsibility remains for the rest of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/a1ca4ce3-17c2-426e-a3eb-9f828f9b1499/Telesa_002.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - India Kalighat, Kolkata, India, 2003 - Inside a quiet shelter in Kalighat, a man sits on a narrow bed beneath numbered walls, his body reduced by illness and age, yet still present with a fragile dignity. Around him, the room carries the signs of institutional care: iron beds, thin mattresses, open windows, and the silence of lives that have drifted beyond the protection of family, work, and ordinary society. This is not only an image of suffering. It is an image of visibility. In a city where faith, poverty, illness, and abandonment exist side by side, the question becomes unavoidable: When a person has lost almost everything, does society still know how to see him as fully human. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-piyavit-nepal daily 0.75 2026-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/0d823695-ebee-40dc-94dd-c31ea5aed270/Napal_001-2.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Nepal A woman stands among the ruins of Sankhu, a historic town on the edge of the Kathmandu Valley, after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The magnitude 7.8 quake struck on April 25, killing nearly 9,000 people and damaging or destroying more than 600,000 structures across Kathmandu and nearby towns. In Sankhu, old brick houses collapsed into narrow lanes, leaving residents to search through rubble for what remained of their homes, their belongings, and their former lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/e8b89bd5-3aa7-4a9c-b35d-b043bf32ae4f/03.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Nepal Women wait along a roadside for relief supplies after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. In the hardest-hit districts outside Kathmandu, families gathered wherever aid trucks stopped, hoping food, tarpaulins, blankets, or basic household items would last until their names were called. For many survivors, the line itself became a place of uncertainty - a quiet test of whether help would reach their families in time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/c8efe3a3-d091-48af-8c95-eec660c4b115/01-3.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Nepal Women wait in line for relief supplies after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, their faces marked by exhaustion and uncertainty. Along the road toward Dhading District, one of the severely affected areas outside Kathmandu, aid distribution became a matter of survival - food, shelter materials, and basic household items moving slowly through damaged roads and crowded queues. In the first weeks after the disaster, many families did not know whether supplies would reach them before they ran out. For women, children, and older people, the wait carried another kind of fear: whether help would be enough, and whether their names would still be called when the line reached them. The earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people, injured more than 22,000, and damaged or destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes across Nepal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/717a0563-fe3d-4a7d-8c7e-7eb17651e701/nepal+03.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Nepal After the Nepal earthquake destroyed her family’s home and belongings, Shanta holds her newborn baby inside a crowded temporary shelter. What should have been a moment of celebration became a daily struggle for space, safety, and dignity, as she and twelve relatives lived together beneath plastic sheets and mosquito netting - Photo: UN Women / Piyavit Thongsa-Ard -Photographed on assignment for UN Women. Used here as part of the photographer’s professional portfolio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/1ffda9af-db8d-4f32-9c98-4d8eaa90002b/04-3.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Nepal Grief breaks into the street in Kathmandu after the earthquake. In the days and weeks that followed, sorrow was visible almost everywhere - outside damaged homes, beside temporary shelters, and along roads where families searched for news of relatives, belongings, and a way forward. For many, the disaster was not only the collapse of buildings, but the sudden loss of people, security, and the familiar shape of daily life. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-between-survival-and-passage daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/1f8f9206-0442-4e54-ba26-01f5625489e1/DSC_6382.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Inside a small wooden temple room in Don Khon, a young novice monk prays by candlelight as dusk settles over the Mekong. On the wall above him, a hand-drawn image of the local waterfalls reflects a landscape that shapes both faith and livelihood here. As the rains approach and Buddhist Lent draws near, the river begins to rise - and with it comes the fishing season, when migratory fish move through the channels, rapids, and falls of the Four Thousand Islands. For many fishing families in southern Laos, Buddhism remains deeply woven into daily life, practiced in quiet, traditional ways that still feel far removed from the speed of modern development elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/60ed0bd0-b216-4a5e-8cfe-a4f6a11e2c9a/Don+Det-2.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At a temple on Don Det, villagers watch as a homemade rocket rises through smoke during Boun Bang Fai, the Lao rocket festival. Traditionally held before the rains, the festival is both celebration and signal - a call for water, fertility, and renewal after the dry season. In Si Phan Don, that signal reaches beyond the temple grounds. As the rainy season approaches, farmers prepare their fields and fishing families begin to read the Mekong more closely. Rising water will soon change the current, open new channels, and bring the first movements of migratory fish through the islands and waterfalls. Here, the rocket’s flight marks more than a ritual. It announces the season when the river begins to move again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/36abb5b4-cdc6-40b8-a904-2ba6a98d5b51/DSC_5432.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Carrying freshly cut poles across black volcanic rock, a fisherman brings material to a remote trap site where a new Li is taking shape. Before the fishing season begins, men must gather wood from nearby areas and haul it by hand through broken terrain and steep river corridors. Building a trap begins long before the first fish arrives; it starts with labor, planning, and an intimate understanding of where the river will eventually carry the migration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/5f45b52d-faed-46c9-92f1-b37e14025edb/DSC_4954.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage By April, when the Mekong falls to its dry-season level, fishermen in Si Phan Don begin building their li traps across the rocky channels. The work must be completed before the rains arrive, the river rises, and the annual migration of fish begins moving through the falls and narrow passages of the Four Thousand Islands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/1a06e565-503f-4ec2-93f9-a59a14664225/12356.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman secures the wooden frame of a Li trap, hammering each piece into place above a fast-moving channel in Si Phan Don. Constructed from timber, bamboo, and stone, the trap is more than a fishing device - it is a form of vernacular engineering shaped by generations of experience with the Mekong’s seasonal rhythms. Each joint, post, and brace reflects knowledge inherited through practice, not blueprints. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/194c0588-a82c-4330-9c8d-ff483c212436/DSC_5138-2.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Fishermen work waist-deep in the current to build the stone foundation of a Li trap in Si Phan Don, southern Laos. Set in narrow channels where migratory fish are funneled by the force of the Mekong, these traditional traps must be anchored carefully with rock, timber, and local knowledge. The work is dangerous and physically demanding, but for many families in the Four Thousand Islands, it remains part of a fishing tradition passed down across generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/679c6a86-84a8-4b56-8e75-681650a46d39/mekomg_migration_fish_0004.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Working together above the rushing water, fishermen raise the long wooden structure that will guide fish into a li trap once the migration begins. In the Four Thousand Islands, trap-building is rarely solitary work. It depends on shared labor - lifting poles, balancing them across the channel, and fixing them into place against the river’s force. What emerges is both a tool of survival and a cultural inheritance, maintained through cooperation, memory, and skill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d3f68af1-1dac-4381-854c-6afa0f2044f6/siphandon_pt_0022.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman dives for stones to build the foundation of a Li trap in Si Phan Don. Throughout the day, men search underwater, lifting rocks by hand and placing them at the base of the wooden frame. The weight is essential: if the foundation is too light, the trap can rise, shift, or be carried away by the Mekong’s current. Before the fish arrive, the hardest work is often hidden below the surface - stone by stone, the trap is anchored against the force of the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/63c25e65-e2d5-4ce9-9f2f-4d52bb82f0f7/DSC_5051.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman prepares lunch beside a newly built Li trap in Si Phan Don. During long days on the rocks, men often rely on whatever the river provides near their work site - small fish caught from nearby channels, cooked over an open fire between rounds of building, checking, and repairing the trap. Here, even in the most remote fishing camps, the Mekong remains both workplace and kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/5919d901-b51f-41ee-b44e-fc8c021183bd/DSC_5662.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Built below steep cliffs in Si Phan Don, this Li trap stands in strong current even before the main migration begins. This year, the water rose earlier than expected, making construction more difficult and forcing fishermen to work against a river already gaining power. Yet the risk is also the reason they build here. These narrow channels are among the first places where migrating fish enter the trap system as they move through the rapids and falls. In the Four Thousand Islands, the best fishing grounds are often the most dangerous - places where timing, strength, and inherited knowledge must meet the river before the fish arrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/9d438642-9400-4e41-9701-0706e006eb83/DSC_5666.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Building the foundation of a Li trap begins with the hardest labor: moving stones into the current to create a base strong enough to withstand the force of the Mekong. At this site in Si Phan Don, set beside a cluster of waterfalls, that work becomes even more punishing. Fishermen must gather and carry rocks across slick timber walkways and into fast-moving water, reinforcing the trap against a river that is never still. Before a single fish is caught, the struggle is already underway - a reminder that in the Four Thousand Islands, fishing depends as much on endurance and engineering as it does on the migration itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/3b8d76db-dbc8-413c-bf97-daad3102b585/DSC_8048.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman pauses beside the remains of a damaged Li trap in Si Phan Don, where a night of hard rain and rising water has undone days of labor. Built from wood, bamboo, and stone, these traditional traps depend on a foundation strong enough to withstand the Mekong’s shifting force. Here, that base was not finished in time. The section designed to hold and funnel fish has been torn apart by the current, a reminder that in the Four Thousand Islands, fishing is shaped as much by uncertainty and loss as by the catch itself. Before the migration season fully begins, fishermen must constantly read the river - its rising level, its speed, its sudden violence - knowing that one misjudgment can cost them both time and livelihood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/86946e42-f645-4e6e-a4b2-a1959226e67b/mekomg_migration_fish_0002-2.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman checks his Li trap in a remote channel of Si Phan Don, where the Mekong breaks into waterfalls, rapids, and narrow passages between black rocks. Built by hand from bamboo, timber, and stone, the trap is placed where the current forces migrating fish into its frame. In these isolated gorges, collecting the catch is dangerous work. The fisherman must move carefully across wet wooden platforms above fast water, returning again and again as the river rises. Here, the trap is not simply a tool. It is a structure built into the force of the river itself - and a measure of the knowledge required to work in one of the Mekong’s most powerful landscapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/00bb6cd4-2ab0-4d16-b4f5-7472eb1c54d7/mekomg_migration_fish_khon_0002.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman returns to his shelter above the falls in Si Phan Don, carrying fish from a nearby Li trap. During the migration season, men often live for days beside the rapids, sleeping in temporary huts built from bamboo, timber, and tarpaulin so they can check the traps at all hours. Here, home is reduced to what the season requires: a place to rest, cook, wait, and keep watch over the river. Around them, the Mekong breaks through rock and waterfall - the same force that brings fish, danger, and livelihood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/228dbac3-5c41-42b7-8017-f77b4cbe8ed2/4000_migration_la_0006.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman checks his Li trap in the force of the midday current at Si Phan Don. During the migration season, the work is not only to collect fish, but to keep the trap alive against the river itself. Driftwood, branches, and debris carried by the Mekong can lodge against the bamboo frame, adding pressure until the structure bends or breaks. For this reason, the traps must be inspected again and again - through the day and into the night. Like collecting the catch, clearing the trap is part of the constant labor of fishing here, where one unattended hour can turn a working structure into wreckage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d542b311-b687-42cf-8731-d52f3f3844b4/DSC_8011.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At remote trap sites in Si Phan Don, the fishing season can turn a stretch of riverbank into a temporary home. Men who work the Li traps may spend days or even weeks away from their families, waiting for the migratory fish to arrive with the rising water. Around the rocks, they build small shelters against the sun and rain, set up cooking fires, prepare and grill smaller fish for food or local sale, and dig or arrange small holding ponds to keep more valuable fish alive until a dealer comes by boat. Life here is measured less by the clock than by the river - its current, its level, and the uncertain timing of the fish. Between waiting and work, the camp becomes both a livelihood and a place of endurance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b315c9ad-700d-420b-bb67-d07aa9509075/DSC_8032.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At remote trap sites in Si Phan Don, fishermen build temporary lives beside the river while waiting for the great migratory runs to arrive. Some remain there for weeks, sometimes even a month, sleeping in makeshift shelters raised among the rocks. Around the traps, they create the infrastructure their work demands: places to cook, prepare and smoke or grill part of the catch, and natural holding ponds where valuable fish can be kept alive until a dealer arrives to buy them. In these isolated camps, livelihood depends not only on the fish, but on the endurance to live with the river’s long uncertainty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/fdd38af3-3671-4c90-9fa5-2594719118ae/DSC_8008.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At remote fishing camps in Si Phan Don, men can wait for days - sometimes weeks - beside their Li traps for the great migratory runs to arrive. During that long stretch of uncertainty, nothing from the river is wasted. The smaller fish caught in the meantime are laid over bamboo racks and grilled beside the rocks, becoming both daily sustenance and a modest source of income. In a landscape shaped by patience, season, and current, these in-between catches help sustain life until the river delivers its larger promise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/5981d513-d620-4b5d-b14f-5ef1635e1119/mekomg_migration_fish_khon_0006-De-3.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A woman grills fish beside a Li trap site in Si Phan Don, preserving part of the day’s catch while fishermen continue to watch the river. During the migration season, the traps must be tended almost constantly, leaving little separation between work, food, and rest. Along these rocky channels, the riverbank becomes more than a landing place. It turns into a temporary workplace - a kitchen, a drying ground, a shelter, and a small economy built around the catch. Fish that cannot be sold immediately are cooked or processed on site, holding their value until buyers arrive and helping families turn the long hours of waiting into income. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/0b226e0d-8c9d-4097-b8bd-ed00afaae968/mekong_nat+geo_new.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage During long stays beside the Li traps in Si Phan Don, the catch is not only eaten fresh or sold. Some fish are transformed on site into preserved food that can last beyond the migration season. Here, fishermen prepare fermented fish, mixing and packing the catch in a process that turns river abundance into storage, flavor, and security for the household. For families who must remain near the traps for days or weeks, preservation is part of survival. It allows the value of the catch to outlast the moment it is taken from the river - becoming food for later, a possible item for trade, and another way the Mekong enters daily life long after the fishing season has passed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/a2755f65-b343-4207-949f-8d45a2b7c47f/DSC_9447.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage According to local tradition in Si Phan Don, a large catch from a Li trap is not kept by one fisherman alone. The fish are divided among those who helped build the wing trap, maintained its structure, carried stones, repaired bamboo, or came to support the dangerous work when the migration arrived. Around the catch, the river’s economy becomes communal. Labor, risk, and knowledge are remembered in the sharing. In a season when fish move through the falls in brief and unpredictable waves, the harvest belongs not only to the person who lifts the trap, but to the network of hands that made the catch possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/a0f29da2-a387-408a-9735-58206845fe0a/DSC_9451.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Each morning, fishermen in Si Phan Don return to their traps to see what the river has yielded overnight. Before the great migration begins - while the Mekong is still relatively low and the main runs have yet to arrive - the catch is often limited to small fish. For families who depend on the river, these modest hauls are part of a season of waiting, when labor continues long before the more valuable fish begin moving through the channels and falls. In the uncertain days before the migration, even a small catch is a measure of both patience and survival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/30f0ad60-63f4-4a29-ab3c-48b7069aa2bd/DSC_0080.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage After lifting his catch at first light, a fisherman wades back into the torrent to reset the net against the force of the Mekong. Weighted with large stones at its base, the net must be anchored by hand - and often by foot - as he feels beneath the water to place each rock in a stable position. In the violent current of Si Phan Don, even this routine task demands balance, strength, and an intimate knowledge of how water moves through the falls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/04feeadb-a256-42c2-aceb-261733bf63d0/The+change+to+disappear_0003.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage During the dry season in Si Phan Don, the Mekong runs clearer, opening another way for fishing families to work the river. Before the rains arrive and the great migration begins, men dive beneath the surface with simple spears, searching the calmer pools and rocky channels for fish to feed their households. Most catches go first to the family table. But when a larger fish is taken, it may be sold for income - a brief reward from the river before the season changes, the water rises, and fishing shifts back to the traps, currents, and dangerous work of the migration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/0fc8f44f-b449-4e6d-9929-eeac2b36eb07/4000_001.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At night in a remote Li trap site in Si Phan Don, a fisherman lifts his catch from the dark water by the light of a headlamp. Far from the villages, these narrow channels and rocky gorges become places of round-the-clock labor during the migration season, when traps must be checked again and again through the night. In the Four Thousand Islands, the work does not end at sunset. Fish can enter the trap with the changing current at any hour, and the men who tend them move through darkness, spray, and fast water to collect what the river has delivered. Here, even in the most isolated channels, the night remains part of the working day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b0177151-b58f-4021-b34d-b66aefb7df72/DSC_9842.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Fishermen in Si Phan Don often turn the river into both workplace and proving ground. In the calmer pockets beside the falls, displays of underwater agility can seem playful, but such skills have practical value in a landscape shaped by violent current and submerged rock. During the fishing season, men regularly dive beneath the surface to position heavy stones, secure nets, and adjust traps in water where balance, breath, and local knowledge can mean the difference between control and danger. Here, even a moment of play reflects a deeper intimacy with the Mekong - and the physical skill required to make a living from it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/2be1982d-2583-4539-ada6-9f112ec2e01c/_DSC1104-De.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At a remote Li trap site in Si Phan Don, fishermen dry their sleeping mat over an open fire after a night storm. During the migration season, they live for days or weeks beside the traps, often in shelters made only from bamboo frames and tarpaulin, built among rocks where there is little flat ground and little protection from the rain. The contradiction is part of the work: the fish arrive with the wet season, but the same storms that bring the river to life can soak food, bedding, clothes, and the few belongings needed to survive beside the falls. Each night by the trap is a test of endurance. Yet this way of fishing has continued for generations - a hard inheritance shaped by water, weather, and the knowledge of when the Mekong begins to move. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/8a7e049f-dd06-4136-afe7-70156817bdd2/khonlong.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At dusk in Si Phan Don, fishermen share a simple meal on the rocks beside their Li trap. During the migration season, the trap cannot be left unattended for long. Fish may enter with the current at any hour, day or night, and the men return again and again to check, clear, and reset it. For those who work these remote fishing sites, the riverbank becomes a temporary home. Dinner is eaten where the work happens - among wet stones, bamboo gear, smoke, and the sound of falling water - as they wait for the Mekong to deliver its next catch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/defffb3e-e946-4ebe-8edc-2386316d7d3b/DSC_9545-3.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Before returning home after a day on the rocks, a fisherman casts a small net in the torrent below the falls, gathering fish for the evening meal. In Si Phan Don, where the Mekong breaks into channels, rapids, and waterfalls, fishing is not only a matter of harvest but of survival around the river’s changing moods. The larger seasonal catch may be sold, but smaller fish taken at the end of the day often remain with the family - food drawn directly from the same waters that shape their work, risk, and daily life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d4f9e4e0-f6b3-4887-9f74-afea3b0c69fb/mekomg_migration_fish_0001.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman checks his Li trap at night in Si Phan Don, silhouetted against the white force of the Mekong. During the migration season, the work continues after dark, when fish may enter the trap with the changing current and the structure must be cleared, repaired, and watched. Built into the rapids by hand, the trap stands between rock, water, and risk. Here, fishing is not a quiet act of waiting, but a struggle carried through darkness - where one man, a headlamp, and a bamboo frame meet the full power of the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/730fe63d-624e-4d46-a138-be97fe98e7a2/_DSC1671.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman lifts a larger migratory fish from a Li trap in Si Phan Don during the middle of the rainy season, when the Mekong has risen and stronger runs begin moving through the falls. By this stage, the fish are often bigger - but their value can fall as catches increase and buyers push prices down. For the men who guard these traps, the season begins with the first rains and continues until the migration fades. Each fish taken from the current is part of a long watch: days and nights spent beside the river, where size, timing, and price rarely move in the fishermen’s favor at the same time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/95654b95-b83e-459a-bda0-7df5892c941a/4000_migration_la_0003.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Some Li traps in Si Phan Don are built far from the bank, placed in the middle of powerful channels where migrating fish are most likely to pass. Reaching them can be as dangerous as working the trap itself. Fishermen tie ropes from the shore and pull themselves through the current, hand over hand, to reach the wooden structure and collect the catch. In these waters, the river is not a background to the work - it is the obstacle, the risk, and the reason the trap is there. Every visit to the li demands strength, timing, and trust in a rope stretched across the force of the Mekong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/2f9206fc-5a34-4cf4-b555-8fed560963d8/siphandon_pt_0009-De.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At remote Li trap sites in Si Phan Don, fishermen may remain for days or weeks once the migration begins, living beside the rapids until the season has passed. In these isolated rock channels, a mobile phone often becomes their only link to home - a way to check on family while they wait, work, and sleep beside the trap, returning only when the run of fish is over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/43ecc84a-8ca9-4cfc-9f9b-56e1757a4b60/%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A1+03.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage During the migration season in Si Phan Don, fish are caught in greater numbers across many channels of the Mekong. But abundance does not always bring security. When the catch is heavy, middlemen often push prices down, forcing fishermen to land even more fish to earn the same income. What begins as a seasonal harvest becomes part of a deeper pressure on the river. As more fish are taken during their migration, the risk of overfishing grows - quietly, steadily, and with few signs of slowing. For fishing families, the river remains a lifeline. For the river’s future, that dependence is becoming an increasingly fragile balance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/8dcff605-205d-4715-b4f6-8912f1cf3178/mekomg_migration_fish_0016.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A fisherman carries part of the catch ashore as the morning haul comes in from the trap sites. As prices fall during peak migration, many fishermen are pushed to catch more fish simply to maintain the same income. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/67d236a7-fa5e-4588-9b71-8325ddeb1a80/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A5%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A2.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Piles of freshly landed fish line the riverbank as traders, families, and laborers move quickly through the harvest. What looks like seasonal plenty also reveals a growing pressure on the Mekong - an expanding catch, declining bargaining power, and the rising risk of overfishing with no clear sign of slowing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/fff8d888-aed4-436d-9a97-7a7b0b6dae6c/_DSC2055.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A middleman records the catch on the riverbank beside a Li trap in Si Phan Don, where fish are bought before they ever reach the market. Some buyers do more than purchase the harvest; they help finance the construction of certain traps, creating a relationship that begins before the fishing season and continues through each sale. At the landing, the catch is counted, inspected, and priced in front of families and fishermen. It is a small transaction scene, but it reveals a larger structure behind the river economy - one where credit, labor, risk, and ownership are tied together long before the fish are lifted from the Mekong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/2a2d7d4a-3e5d-429b-972c-eacd1af87575/_DSC2075.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At first light in Si Phan Don, families and neighbors gather near the Li trap sites as fish from the night’s catch are divided. Some have come to receive a share from the trap owner; others are relatives of the fishermen, collecting the portion set aside for the household before the rest is sold. Here, a catch is not only income, but also food, kinship, and a form of exchange that ties the community to the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d521ca0c-27f4-48bd-a8d5-a3f2eebde2e2/_DSC2109.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage A family pushes a wooden cart loaded with fish from a li trap in Si Phan Don. Before the catch enters the market, the owner sets aside a share for the household - food for children, elders, and daily meals. Only what remains is sold. In the Four Thousand Islands, fishing is not simply a commercial activity. It is first tied to survival at home, then to cash income. Each catch moves through the family before it moves through the market, linking the river directly to both the kitchen and the wider economy of southern Laos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b8e81291-2b7c-4f2b-9f78-8f108a61c8fe/Website_02.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At the height of the migration season in Si Phan Don, large fish are sorted quickly before they lose value in the heat. Middlemen examine the catch by size, species, and freshness, deciding what will move on to larger markets and what will remain for local sale. For fishermen, this moment is critical. The river may deliver abundance, but the price is set on land - in the hands of buyers who turn the catch into trade. Between the water and the market, each fish becomes part of a negotiation shaped by urgency, demand, and the fragile economics of the Mekong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/2b645737-7552-459b-93d1-4b5b80fe74cd/_DSC1639.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Workers transfer fish from island boats after middlemen have bought the catch from Li trap owners in Si Phan Don. Once gathered from the traps, the fish must move quickly through the next stage of the river economy - from small boats to larger loads, from island landings to buyers on the mainland. This is the less visible labor behind the trade: lifting, sorting, tying, and carrying heavy baskets before the fish are sent onward to markets and restaurants across southern Laos. Between the fisherman and the final buyer, many hands help move the Mekong’s catch from water to commerce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/3a05b15b-6e01-4b47-8003-11cc0fb82d2d/DSC_8924.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Porn, 53, the wife of a fisherman in Si Phan Don, has recently taken on a second role beyond the household: buying and selling fish. Her family has already completed the construction of three Li traps, but the main migration from the Cambodian side of the Mekong has not yet arrived. Until the river begins to deliver its seasonal catch, she buys fish from other fishermen and carries them by boat toward the mainland trade, where they can be sold on through the central market in Pakse. For families along the Four Thousand Islands, fishing is rarely a single occupation. It is a chain of labor shared across the household - building traps, waiting for the migration, handling the catch, negotiating prices, and moving fish from island waters to market towns. In the uncertain weeks before the main run begins, small trades like this help keep the family economy alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/c2055122-854d-4434-8071-fe9eb0073d97/DSC_8976.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At Nakasang, the first mainland trading point for much of the fish coming out of Si Phan Don, the river’s catch begins its movement into the market economy. Fish brought by boat from the islands are sorted, weighed, and negotiated on the muddy landing before being carried onward to towns such as Pakse and nearby local markets. Here, a buyer from Pakse selects fish from the morning catch, choosing what can be sold fresh and what will move quickly through the day’s trade. For fishermen in the Four Thousand Islands, the journey does not end when the fish leave the trap. The catch must still pass through hands, boats, scales, and bargaining - a chain of small transactions that connects remote river labor to the wider food markets of southern Laos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/01455012-c080-4f15-ba59-f99c64b4aabf/DSC_9020.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage At Nakasang fish market, laborers haul woven baskets of fish from the landing into a pickup truck bound for Pakse, the commercial center of southern Laos. Each basket can weigh around 100 kilograms, heavy with fish brought in from the islands and falls of Si Phan Don. By the time the truck leaves, it may carry more than a ton of river catch. This is where the labor of the Mekong changes form - from traps, boats, and wet hands into transport, weight, price, and trade. What began in the rapids before dawn now enters a wider market chain, moving from fishermen to buyers, from island landings to town stalls, and from the river’s dangerous currents into the daily food economy of southern Laos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/2129b33d-5c8b-4489-8c9f-b16e3425f430/WEBSITE_01.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage As the fish migration intensifies in Si Phan Don, the catch moves quickly from river to truck. Young laborers load baskets of fish onto a pickup near the Mekong, part of a fast-moving trade that links remote trap sites to buyers and markets farther inland. But heavy catches do not always mean better income. When fish arrive in large numbers, middlemen can push prices down, forcing fishermen to catch more simply to earn enough. In this cycle of abundance and pressure, the river gives generously - while the risk of overfishing grows with each season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b86f8541-ccb1-4ca6-8c51-0450e3ad627e/4000_migration_la_0009.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- Between Survival and Passage Fish buyers collect the day’s catch from fishermen in Si Phan Don, loading baskets of Mekong fish for resale beyond the river communities. Once the fish leave the traps, they enter another chain of labor - sorted, weighed, transported, and sold through middlemen to markets in southern Laos. For fishing families, this trade turns the river’s seasonal abundance into cash income. But it also places them inside a fragile market system, where the value of each catch is shaped not only by the river, but by buyers, timing, and the pressure to sell before the fish lose freshness. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-piyavit-the-philippines-life-after-typhoon-haiyan daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/2aa6e4a9-5824-4a69-8e36-a1d64734cc72/yolande_fb_0005.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Palo, Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - A woman prays inside a church damaged by Typhoon Haiyan. Around her, the roof has been torn open and sacred figures remain exposed beneath the broken structure - a quiet image of faith held in place amid loss, ruin, and the long work of beginning again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/4b087f38-79d1-46db-b237-ed49604816cd/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0002-De.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban, Philippines, 2013 - In the port area of Tacloban, ships driven ashore by Typhoon Haiyan loom over homes reduced to makeshift shelters. By candlelight, a man prepares food for his family, cooking beneath a surreal landscape of wrecked vessels, broken structures, and a city still without power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/db7de1e5-f183-4776-bf13-0bc5584531c2/Hiyan_003-3.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban, Philippines, 2013 - From the deck of a wrecked ship where survivors had taken shelter, the scale of Typhoon Haiyan’s destruction stretches toward the sea: flattened homes, scattered debris, and other vessels driven ashore by the storm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/c753bc2e-05c6-489d-a72e-12cf7eca468a/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0020.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Palo, Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - At a hillside shrine overlooking a town scarred by Typhoon Haiyan, a young mother holds her child and lights candles in prayer. Below them, families rebuild among damaged homes and broken trees, while faith becomes one of the few things left standing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b6620c24-98ed-4186-8315-f38ccd9567e3/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0018.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Palo, Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - At dusk, candles burn in a makeshift graveyard for victims of Typhoon Haiyan. Some graves mark entire families; in some homes, no one survived to mourn them. Behind the candles, broken trees and damaged buildings remain, holding the storm’s violence in the landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/9c68744e-eb21-48e5-badc-f8dd86228a9d/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0007-De.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban, Philippines, 2013 - At Tacloban airport, a mother nurses her child while waiting for evacuation after Typhoon Haiyan. Around her, families sit with what they were able to carry from the ruins, hoping for a flight out of a city where survival continued long after the storm had passed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/7fa9bab9-8526-4c21-ad5b-57dff19c5c41/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0008-De.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban airport. Hundreds of people struggle to evacuate. Exhausted and stressed soldiers try to maintain control. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/ae470c29-dfda-4691-aa47-5e879b65f49a/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0023.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Barangay Alimasay, Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - In the “crab zone” of Barangay Alimasay, storm surge from Typhoon Haiyan swept through a coastal community of about 600 people. Nearly half the village was lost. Weeks later, smoke rose from the wreckage, and the landscape remained stripped open - boats broken, homes erased, and a single palm standing over what the sea had taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/460413e3-e4ef-499c-8081-88ec747cf2ee/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0025.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Philippines, 2013 - Three weeks after Typhoon Haiyan, members of a special police unit unload bodies recovered from the ruins. Each day, more victims were found and brought to burial sites like this one, where the scale of loss overwhelmed ordinary rituals of mourning and the dead were placed in mass graves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/18985ff2-1c9a-47d7-88e2-0ef934d626ff/Hiyan+0001-2.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - Body bags lie in an open field weeks after Typhoon Haiyan tore through the central Philippines. With morgues, roads, and local authorities overwhelmed, many of the dead were held in temporary sites before burial in mass graves. In places like this, the scale of loss exceeded the rituals that normally give death its dignity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/f1ea7657-b738-49ef-b953-ec5481669551/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0005.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban, Philippines, 2013 - Police secure a truck carrying food aid as hundreds of survivors wait in line for relief supplies after Typhoon Haiyan. For many families, standing for hours became part of daily survival, with no guarantee that food would still be available when they reached the front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/436bfa93-bd68-45b4-917f-f09d1055283d/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0014+%281%29.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban, Philippines, 2013 - Boys play basketball with a makeshift hoop in a neighborhood devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. Around them, homes are damaged, trees stripped bare, and the landscape still carries the force of the storm. Yet in the middle of ruin, play returns - a small sign of resilience, and of a community trying to hold on to ordinary life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/7289f3cf-3d8a-4d2d-b343-eaae65049208/yolande_fb_0007.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - A man washes clothes in front of a damaged church after Typhoon Haiyan. Around him, debris, broken structures, and sacred figures remain exposed to the open air, while daily life slowly resumes in the ruins. In the aftermath of the storm, survival was built from small acts like this - cleaning, repairing, waiting, and trying to make ordinary life possible again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/90d756a5-0d9d-43b0-9dd8-b6a20a2456ee/yolande_fb_0003.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Palo, Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - Catholic sisters walk through a neighborhood devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, visiting families and offering support in the days after the storm. Around them, homes remain damaged and streets are lined with debris, but their presence carries a quiet form of care - faith moving through a community still trying to stand again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/79eaac53-5a3e-43c6-8368-b95a94e36fae/yolande_fb_0001.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Palo, Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - A Catholic sister walks through the damaged grounds of a church complex after Typhoon Haiyan. Across Palo and nearby Tacloban, homes, churches, schools, and convents were damaged or destroyed, leaving religious communities to offer prayer and support amid the ruins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/64592911-0ba8-4fff-a0b5-8f5eb04b8429/Haiyan_pl_pt+_0013.jpg Gallery - Piyavit- The Philippines: Life After Typhoon Haiyan Palo, Leyte, Philippines, 2013 - A man stands among shattered coconut palms and the remains of homes after Typhoon Haiyan. In places like Palo, the scale of destruction was almost impossible to comprehend: familiar streets turned into fields of debris, livelihoods torn apart, and daily life reduced to the first difficult acts of survival. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-piyavit-brick daily 0.75 2026-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/0d1e4576-08d2-4f89-b52d-45601307c2f5/pth00037-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - Men carry kiln-fired bricks in heavy double baskets slung from shoulder poles, while women move the same material balanced on their heads. At the kiln, the body itself becomes the main tool of labor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/111595e1-85bd-4eab-9abf-040414412981/pth00041-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - A woman stacks freshly fired bricks at a kiln yard in Bihar. Men and women share the same punishing labor here, moving thousands of bricks by hand before they are transported and sold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/00798729-adad-42f9-b567-bfb21a96fa70/pth00039-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - Laxshmi, a brick kiln worker, holds her youngest daughter inside their living quarters near the kiln. For many girls born into this labor cycle, childhood offers little distance from the work that shaped their parents’ lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/85f40d4b-29fb-4c79-ba09-bcb6d9ca62bc/pth00042-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - Dust rises as fired bricks are lifted and stacked for transport. At the kiln, every movement sends clay and ash back into the air, turning the final stage of production into another layer of exposure for the workers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/6939356d-9592-4b4a-a3fa-fc2e18b5b575/pth00038-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - A fire stoker prepares to feed coal into the kiln below. Beneath his feet, extreme heat rises through the firing chambers, separated from the workers above by little more than a layer of bricks and sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/37e30179-2a8e-44ae-9bd6-216ca0361d75/pth00031-De.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - A worker shapes wet earth into rows of bricks at a kiln yard in Bihar. Working for long hours in a crouched position, she can produce more than a thousand bricks in a single day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b4128581-99f7-4799-b257-7612c2f78470/pth00032.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - A young girl carries freshly mixed clay on her head at a brick kiln in Bihar. Around her, walls of drying bricks rise from the earth, while childhood is folded into the same cycle of labor as the adults beside her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/480c7873-409c-40ce-b244-c843ce45ecc1/pth00045-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - A young worker carries wet clay through a brick kiln yard in Bihar. The mud will be shaped by hand into new bricks, part of a family labor cycle that begins before firing and continues until the finished bricks are carried away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/26057741-5f94-43f8-a3c6-0f923ac299ce/Blick+K_002.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick At a brick kiln - Patna, in the Indian state of Bihar, a child shapes wet clay by hand before it is left to dry in the sun. Rows of newly made bricks stretch across the yard behind her, each one carrying the mark of human labour before it enters the fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/771f2ca1-377a-43ce-9619-caa62ceebd98/pth00047-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - After a day of carrying bricks, workers’ baskets hang from the kiln wall. The tools of labor are left in place, waiting to be lifted again with the next day’s work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/e8c7c820-55f3-4f4c-9277-f1fd4c095f4e/pth00035-2.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India - April 2003. Under the harsh April sun, workers move bricks inside a kiln pit where heat rises from the ground and dust hangs in the air. Each load is carried by hand, one stack after another, in a cycle of labor shaped by poverty, endurance, and the demand for cheap building materials. In this narrow space of brick and heat, the body becomes the only machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/75c7df18-86ba-4404-9f12-4c7ad16b5cdd/pth00033.jpg Gallery- Piyavit - Brick Patna, Bihar, India, April 2003 - Workers move freshly fired bricks from the kiln yard for transport and sale. Each load is carried by hand, through dust thick enough to become part of the work itself - entering the air, the skin, and the lungs of those who labor there. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-piyavit-_kip daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/ef138f64-0f5e-4c23-ab68-9ba698f05c5f/pt_la_kip+inflation__0001.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - Shoppers move through Oxy wholesale fresh market on the outskirts of Vientiane, once a busy source of produce and daily goods for traders, restaurant owners, and small shopkeepers. As fuel prices rose and the Lao kip weakened sharply against the Thai baht, many imported goods from Thailand became increasingly expensive. For lower- and middle-income sellers, the market became harder to rely on; fewer came to buy, and the cost of basic supplies began to outpace the money they could earn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/50883767-53c4-42d2-9cd5-efd677277a53/pt_la_kip+inflation__0002.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - A shopkeeper sits behind a display of copy-brand handbags and fashion goods as traffic lights reflect across the shop window. For many young Lao consumers, foreign fashion remains desirable, but purchasing power has weakened sharply amid economic decline, inflation, and the falling value of the kip. After COVID-19 and the wider global economic shocks that followed, many small shops selling low-cost fashion products have closed; those that remain open often wait through long days with few customers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/4cd70e4d-02c7-4b08-879c-c95e0fb36896/pt_la_kip+inflation__0005.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - A child plays beside her mother’s stall at Oxy wholesale fresh market. As purchasing power weakens and sales slow, many vendors spend longer hours waiting for customers, often bringing their children and family members with them to the market. What was once a place of quick exchange has become, for some, a place to wait, work, and keep family life close because there is little money left for other choices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/9028427b-7844-4568-9011-681dc62054e9/pt_la_kip+inflation__0004.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - Monks receive morning offerings from vendors at Oxy wholesale fresh market, where faith and commerce meet before the day’s trading begins. As Laos faces rising prices, a weakened kip, and the wider effects of global economic shocks, many market sellers struggle to earn what they once did. For some, daily offerings are both a religious practice and a quiet hope that the day will bring enough customers, enough sales, and enough relief to keep going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/7e618c1b-dff4-48d2-9251-bd2c8e6a3d97/untitled-1-DeNoiseAI-severe-noise.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pak Ou Caves, Luang Prabang. Laos, 2022 - At Tham Ting, one of the sacred Pak Ou caves overlooking the Mekong River, a souvenir seller makes an offering and prays for better business. The caves, among Luang Prabang’s best-known pilgrimage and tourist sites, can be reached only by boat. As the weakening Lao kip has pushed up the cost of imported fuel, boat fares have risen sharply - in some cases doubling - leaving fewer visitors to make the journey and fewer customers for those whose livelihoods depend on them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/5ccd1e9b-e496-4517-b283-0bfd6e0127de/pt_la_kip+inflation__0015.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - A truck loaded with fresh bananas arrives at the market in the late afternoon. Although bananas are grown locally in Laos, inflation has raised the cost of planting, fuel, transport, and daily labor, pushing even familiar local produce into a more uncertain economy. As the kip weakens, price increases move through the food chain - from growers and traders to market sellers and the families who buy from them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/4680f73d-9d4f-408d-9bb9-9f8d7ccedc03/pt_la_kip+inflation__0027.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - A hotel worker cleans a swimming pool as Laos tries to rebuild its tourism economy after reopening to foreign visitors. But arrivals remain below expectations, and many small hotels, guesthouses, and inns struggle to hire enough staff or maintain regular service. In a fragile recovery, the businesses most able to survive are often the medium and larger hotels with enough capital to keep operating standards in place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/1c4cc6fd-1fd8-4e2f-a58e-a75eb58c4d53/pt_laos_inflation_0017.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pakse, Laos, 2022 - Inside a nightclub in Pakse, empty tables sit beneath laser lights and a silent stage. As the Lao kip weakens, some entertainment venues have shifted into the hands of foreign investors with stronger purchasing power than many local operators. In the city’s nightlife economy, the crisis is visible not only in what people can no longer afford, but also in who is still able to invest, reopen, and wait for customers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/0853dc72-3784-433a-9de2-7f03ae590830/pt_la_kip+inflation__0023.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - A construction worker repairs a building as Laos reopens to tourism after years of disruption. The economic crisis that began during COVID-19 deepened with global shocks from the Russia–Ukraine war, weakening the Lao kip and pushing many workers to seek better wages in Thailand. As hotels, guesthouses, and homes rush to repair properties left idle for years, the shortage of construction labor has made recovery slower, more expensive, and harder to complete in time for the returning tourist season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/523423e7-4d7c-46ba-aecf-6736d002d320/pt_la_kip+inflation__0010.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pakse, Laos, 2022 - A shopkeeper waits among shelves of imported goods at a grocery stall in Pakse market. As the Lao kip weakens, prices for products brought in from neighboring countries become harder to predict, leaving small retailers uncertain about what they will earn from one day to the next. In shops like this, inflation is measured not only in numbers, but in hesitation - in every price adjusted, every sale delayed, and every customer forced to buy less. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/b8e6d382-f47f-4abe-a38b-01960c1e6a01/pt_la_kip+inflation__0017.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pakse, Laos, 2022 - A hotel kitchen prepares for evening service as foreign tourists slowly return to southern Laos. But the recovery is uneven. As the kip weakens and operating costs rise, small tourism businesses struggle to know whether visitors can still bring the income and jobs they once depended on. Larger hotels may be able to keep kitchens open, staff employed, and services running, while smaller operators face a more uncertain season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/7f8f1826-6e46-4bcc-8504-6256e4616d09/pt_laos_inflation_0009.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pakse, Laos, 2022 - A food-stall owner prepares her kitchen before opening for the day. Nearly every seasoning and ingredient used in her shop comes from neighboring countries, tying even a small local meal to exchange rates, fuel costs, and the falling value of the Lao kip. In places like this, inflation enters daily life quietly - through cooking oil, sauces, rice, noodles, and every plate sold at the counter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/58323643-cf41-4f68-ba68-de68453aa487/pt_la_kip+inflation__0012.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pakse, Laos, 2022 - A fruit seller prepares her stall before the market opens. Much of the fruit she sells is imported from countries with stronger currencies than the Lao kip, making each purchase more expensive before it even reaches her shop. As the kip continues to weaken, prices shift quickly and profit margins shrink. By the end of the day, what remains from selling may be little more than the cost of staying open. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/779091da-d3bb-4da2-a53a-4546635dd01c/pt_laos_inflation_0013.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pakse, Laos, 2022 - Foreign tourists have begun returning to Pakse, the largest city in southern Laos. But amid the continuing crisis of a weakened Lao kip, small tourism operators still struggle to know whether the industry can generate income and jobs as it once did. Larger businesses, such as three-star hotels and established operators, appear better able to absorb rising costs and survive the uncertainty, while smaller guesthouses, restaurants, and tour providers face a more fragile recovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/08cae29c-a3d2-4f87-9942-9c053e783f97/pt_la_kip+inflation__0026.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Vientiane, Laos, 2022 - A security guard sits outside a commercial building where shop spaces stand empty. After years of economic slowdown, many guards in Laos are employed less to manage crowds or protect busy businesses than to watch over closed storefronts and idle assets. In the stillness of these spaces, the crisis is measured not by movement, but by what has stopped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/8708b5d7-696b-4ebf-b03d-801b33c3afe6/pt_la_kip+inflation__0019.jpg Gallery - Piyavit _Kip Pakse, Laos, 2022 - A family eats at a small street-food shop in Pakse. As inflation weakens household budgets, places like this remain an essential part of daily life - affordable, familiar, and close to home. For many Lao families, eating out no longer means leisure; it is a careful choice shaped by price, convenience, and the need to make each day’s money go further. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-piyavit-xe-pain daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/3f8e3314-82e9-4c53-915d-5240228b3a2c/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_001.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Attapeu, Laos - After the Xe Pian dam collapse, floodwater surged through the Xe River valley, tearing through bridges and crossings on its way downstream. Before reaching Tha Hin Lat - the first village hit by the disaster - the river had already become a force of destruction, carrying water, mud, and debris through the mountains toward communities with little time to escape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/62cf41f1-cdd8-499a-9d3c-08fadc45a769/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_002.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Hin Lat Village, Attapeu, Laos - Villagers travel along what was once the main road through Hin Lat after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Before the disaster, homes stood on both sides of this road as it cut through the center of the village. After the flood, nearly 90 percent of the community was buried beneath sand and mud carried down by the water released from the dam. In some places, the deposits rose almost three meters high. As the water receded, survivors returned to search for whatever belongings remained beneath the mud. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/54b0d439-450b-4143-90e6-d46460008076/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_003.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Hin Lat Village, Attapeu, Laos - A survivor returns to search for belongings after the Xe Pian dam collapse swept away homes and property in Hin Lat. Before the disaster, the village had around 180 households. Fewer than 10 houses remained standing after the flood. Behind him, the village temple - one of the few permanent structures left - still stands, though more than 80 percent of it was damaged. For many residents, returning meant walking through mud and debris in the hope that something from their former lives had survived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/c068e627-a7c0-4c69-a559-5ed20479fb25/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_018.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Sanamxai, Attapeu, Laos - Tension rises among survivors living in a temporary shelter at Sanamxai School after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Displaced families crowd the school corridors, waiting for information, assistance, and news of relatives still missing. In the days after the disaster, survival was not only a matter of food and shelter, but of uncertainty - who had survived, what had been lost, and whether there would be a home to return to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/46874792-0674-4d7e-8614-824dadaef6e8/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_004.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Tamoyot Shelter, Attapeu, Laos - A displaced survivor from Hin Lat holds a child at the Tamoyot relief shelter after the Xe Pian dam collapse. For nearly 95 percent of the families here, there was no home left to return to. The flood had swept away houses, possessions, and the shape of village life, leaving survivors to rebuild daily routines inside a temporary camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/a4a28095-1aca-4bd0-8e70-5599be4bdeb2/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_005.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Tamoyot Shelter, Attapeu, Laos - A displaced girl from Hin Lat washes her hair at the Tamoyot shelter after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Far from the village she once knew, daily routines continue in temporary spaces - bathing, eating, waiting, and trying to hold on to ordinary life after home has been swept away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/9a7b03b8-76c6-482c-aba3-816f39802146/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_017.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Sanamxai, Attapeu, Laos - An identification card hangs from the neck of a displaced villager at the Sanamxai School camp after the Xe Pian dam collapse. In the days after the disaster, people who had once been farmers, parents, neighbors, and members of a village were registered by numbers in a temporary shelter. The flood did not only take homes and belongings; it changed how people were seen - from villagers to survivors, from a community to a camp list. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/89eed8cb-d367-4f6f-bcd3-7b7a0dca55be/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_006.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Hin Lat Village, Attapeu, Laos - Nearly a week after the Xe Pian dam collapse, survivors from Hin Lat remained in shock and grief. Inside the shelter, the weight of the disaster was still visible in their faces - the loss of homes, relatives, belongings, and the life they had known before the water came. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/630212f6-3b46-4932-a9d7-9130701f3c60/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_007.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Ban Hinlad, Laos - In the wreckage left behind by the Xe Pian dam disaster, villagers begin returning to search for whatever the floodwaters did not take. Among them is a monk from the village, walking through the remains of shattered homes and twisted corrugated metal. For residents of Ban Hinlad, the disaster swept away not only houses and possessions, but the physical shape of everyday life itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/1a9a9f28-8453-4448-a7b6-66c092cc2a41/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_008.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Attapeu, Laos - A villager walks along what was once the main road through her community after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Before the disaster, more than 180 homes stood on both sides of this road; now the village has been reduced to sand, mud, and debris. Most of the houses were swept away by the flood. The woman in the photograph lost four members of her family, with one still missing. This image was not staged - it was made in the silence that remained after the water had passed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/c793fed3-3715-4244-b77c-e3bd08f945d0/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_009.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Hin Lat Village, Attapeu, Laos - A survivor stands before damaged homes in Hin Lat after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Scenes like this were visible throughout the village: houses torn open, walls broken, and debris left hanging from the structures that remained. What had once been a place of daily life became a landscape of loss, where families returned only to see how much the water had taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/0c0d607b-497a-41e1-ad81-c1596a1d4988/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_013.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Hin Lat Village, Attapeu, Laos - A survivor stands inside what remains of his home after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Mud, debris, and floodwater have torn through the structure, leaving only fragments of the life that once filled it. In the silence after the disaster, he looks at what survived - and at everything that did not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/bb8908b5-aca7-4fdb-9909-73401e8a162f/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_011.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Khok Kong Village, Attapeu, Laos - Shop owners stand inside their flooded store after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Khok Kong was one of seven villages damaged by the disaster, where water and mud entered homes, shops, and storage rooms, destroying goods and leaving families to recover what little could still be used. For small businesses like this, the flood swept away not only property, but the fragile economy that supported daily village life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/ed47a634-c217-473f-8c4c-5034b508e2d8/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_012.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Khok Kong Village, Attapeu, Laos - Survivors of the Xe Pian dam collapse return to clean what remains of their home in Khok Kong, one of seven villages affected by the disaster. In parts of the village, floodwater rose nearly three meters high, leaving rooms filled with mud, damaged furniture, and the residue of a life suddenly interrupted. What could be saved had to be carried out by hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/132777aa-80c7-43d2-ab80-12023dbfd185/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_010.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Attapeu, Laos - A survivor of the Xe Pian dam collapse stands in a state of shock and loss after the disaster. In her face is the weight of what many survivors carried in the days that followed - fear, displacement, uncertainty, and the sudden breaking of a life that had once been familiar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/e2d060ad-8ee8-4021-8bb7-370d5b42a190/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_016.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Sanamxai School Shelter, Attapeu, Laos - Survivors of the Xe Pian dam collapse sit in tense silence at the Sanamxai School shelter. Displaced from Hin Lat and nearby villages, families waited for news, aid, and any sign of what might come next. In the crowded shelter, the disaster was carried not only in the loss of homes, but in the faces of people forced to live with uncertainty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/e7a1b948-9702-4a64-bab5-b4b7e904248e/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_014.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Sanamxai, Attapeu, Laos - Survivors of the Xe Pian dam collapse move their belongings from overcrowded school buildings into newly supplied tents at the Sanamxai shelter. For displaced families, the tents offered more space, but not yet a return to home - only another temporary place to wait, recover, and begin again after the flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/52a10e06-7ac3-434c-b326-2ee3e9ca32d0/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_015.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Sanamxai, Attapeu, Laos - A displaced girl carries donated supplies back to her family at the Sanamxai shelter after the Xe Pian dam collapse. Survivors had recently moved from overcrowded school buildings into newly supplied tents, carrying food, clothing, and household items across the camp. For families who had lost almost everything, each donated bundle became part of rebuilding life in temporary shelter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/272fb73b-8ecf-4ebd-907b-ea6902771f4f/xepian+dam+collapsed_laos_019.jpg Gallery - Piyavit - Xe pain Sanamxai, Attapeu, Laos - An injured survivor from a remote village is brought to the Sanamxai shelter after the Xe Pian dam collapse, with support from the Lao Air Force. In areas cut off by floodwater, mud, and damaged roads, evacuation often depended on military transport before patients could be transferred onward to hospital care. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-oil-lamp-cambodia daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/d420b962-3b3b-416e-bf6f-e101c2cdfd10/Tonele+Sap_0002.jpg Gallery - Oil lamp - Cambodia Oil Lamp Fishing, Tonle Sap, Cambodia - On the Tonle Sap, some fishermen still work deep into the night using oil lamps to draw life toward the boat. The flame attracts insects, the insects draw fish, and the water beneath the light becomes a small, moving trap. In the darkness, this form of fishing is both dangerous and difficult to regulate. Kerosene spills, open flames, and unstable wooden boats make each night a risk. For poor fishing families, however, the method remains a way to survive when legal catches are no longer enough. What appears at first as a quiet glow on the lake is also a sign of pressure - on fish stocks, on livelihoods, and on the fragile ecology of Cambodia’s great inland sea. Here, survival often moves in the shadows, between necessity and the law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/6611571b-5b87-4e7c-a14a-1716845d1622/Tonele+Sap_0001.jpg Gallery - Oil lamp - Cambodia Overfishing on the Tonle Sap, Cambodia - On the Tonle Sap near Siem Reap, fishing does not end when the night is over. Before dawn, middlemen arrive to buy the catch from families who have worked through the dark. For many fishermen, catching more fish is not a choice but a necessity - the daily measure of whether a household can eat, repay debt, and continue living on the lake. But the pressure on the water has become heavier than the lake can carry. Each night, more fish are taken before the Tonle Sap has time to replenish itself. What once sustained generations is now being pushed beyond its natural rhythm. In this fragile balance, survival for one family can become part of a larger loss for the lake itself. https://www.southasiavisualdocumentarycollective.com/gallery-cambodia-_oil-lame-01 daily 0.75 2026-05-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/f450a1eb-2f49-4140-8916-a8cfda5b2562/Tonele+Sap_0002.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - Fishermen travel into the vast darkness of the Tonle Sap to set oil lamps across their fishing ground. A single boat may carry hundreds of kerosene lamps - enough flame and fuel to make each night a risk of fire, leakage, and accident on the water. Though this method is illegal, many fishing families continue to use it under the pressure of survival, working between danger, law, and the need to bring home a catch before dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/c104d874-0240-43e3-8bf1-1e894779994f/_DSC0744.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A fisherman prepares kerosene lamps before setting them across the dark water of the Tonle Sap. Each flame is used to draw insects, and with them, fish rising from below. On nights like this, the boat becomes both workplace and risk - crowded with fire, fuel, nets, and the pressure to catch enough before dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/9b02f080-6b83-485a-9215-50541b95ed10/Tonele+Sap_0003.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A fisherman fills oil lamps used to attract fish during night fishing on the Tonle Sap. Each lamp burns kerosene, casting light across the dark water to draw insects and fish toward the boat. But every night, dozens of boats using this method release leaking fuel into the lake. What helps one family make a catch also leaves a quieter damage behind - oil spreading into the water that sustains both fish and people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/71b54bf8-56e5-4101-a1c0-4883ee4b689e/_DSC0776.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - The boat owner’s son prepares to set a kerosene lamp onto the dark water of the Tonle Sap. Each flame is part of a night-fishing method used to draw insects and fish toward the boat. For families who live from the lake, children often learn the work early - handling fire, fuel, and risk in a place where survival is measured by what can be caught before dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/ce8eba26-3c76-4d9a-a4ef-1ee8a6a06416/_DSC0978.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - When the time comes, fishermen move from lamp to lamp across the dark water. A large scoop net, built onto the front of the boat and adapted for this method, is lowered beneath each kerosene flame. One person stands at the bow to pull the lamp away before the fire burns the net, while others lift the fish gathered below. The small lights scattered across the water mark each lamp they have set - each one a point to return to, scoop beneath, and empty before moving on through the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/984d2537-6613-4be5-a030-0800c80d786b/Tonele+Sap_0006-De.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - After dark, fishermen set out across the Tonle Sap carrying dozens - sometimes hundreds - of kerosene lamps. The flames draw insects toward the water; as they fall, fish gather beneath the light. Before dawn, or when experience tells them the fish have gathered in enough numbers, the fishermen lower a special net into the darkness and lift the night’s catch from below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/aebe025a-e80d-41fa-9d9b-7af763e6281d/oil+lamp_0001-De-2.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - All night, the work repeats: lift the lamp, gather the fish, reset the net, move toward the next flame. On Tonle Sap, oil-lamp fishing is illegal, but it is also part of a harsher reality - a lake under pressure, fish stocks in decline, and families trying to survive in a place where the water once seemed inexhaustible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/566d0370-c33c-4ad5-9591-9ea40c1c102c/Tonele+Sap_0004.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A fisherman empties a night catch of small fish into the storage hold beneath his boat. Drawn toward the glow of oil lamps, many of the fish caught this way are juveniles - part of the lake’s future stock before they have time to mature. The Tonle Sap’s flooded forests normally provide food and shelter for larvae and young fish, but heavy fishing pressure, habitat loss, and declining fish populations have made that cycle increasingly fragile. Each night’s catch becomes both a livelihood and a warning: the lake is being asked to give faster than it can renew itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/f5df1a22-e88c-4214-8dac-5eb7c4710b5a/Tonele+Sap_0008-De.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - A boat owner gathers fish from one round of night fishing on the Tonle Sap. Through the darkness, the catch is collected again and again, each haul stored beneath the wooden deck before the boat returns to the water. For fishing families, the night is measured in repeated labor - lamp light, nets, small fish, and the pressure to bring home enough before dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/613931cc-5325-43e3-b5fa-9f2c977a197f/_DSC1030.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - After the lamp is lifted from the water, it must be handled carefully before the boat moves on to the next light. Across the dark surface of Tonle Sap, these scattered flames mark both a fishing method and a deeper pressure - the struggle to survive on a lake where abundance is no longer guaranteed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/312508df-c513-45b5-b13e-dab99bce5b46/_DSC1023.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - At night’s end on Tonle Sap, fishermen collect their oil lamps before heading back to shore. The tools of an illegal fishing method are packed away quietly - evidence of a life shaped by necessity, and of a lake under growing pressure from overfishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/a64152e8-b185-4dcf-b206-c3fb956c4221/Tonele+Sap_De.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - At the end of the night, every net is folded, every piece of gear hidden and kept in order for the next return to the lake. On Tonle Sap, survival is not improvised; it is repeated with care, night after night, inside a fragile line between necessity and the law. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69a16ba02d4f143a6f0654bf/caad9569-4dac-4cc3-88d1-ea68950f6ad2/_DSC0940.jpg Gallery - Cambodia _Oil Lame 01 Tonle Sap, Cambodia - Illegal by law and risky to keep, the fishing gear is hidden in bushes on islands across Tonle Sap rather than brought back home. 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