Khmer Ladyboy at Vibe After Hours Club in the Phnom Pehn Night.....

"Khmer Ladyboy at Vibe After Hours Club in the Phnom Pehn Night" - Chris Coles

Bar Girl from Surin in Bangkok

"Bar Girl from Surin in Bangkok" - Chris Coles

Her two kids are with her mother in Surin, living in a little shack on stilts.....she works at the bar in Sukhumvit twenty-eight days a month with two days off, rents a cubicle room for 2500 baht per month, spends 100 baht a day on food and transport....whatever's left goes back to Surin.........

Phnom Penh Noir - Freelancer Girl at Heart of Darkness Disco

"Freelancer Girl at Heart of Darkness Disco" - Chris Coles

Heart of Darkness Disco, Street 51 in the hot Phnom Penh night...male and female Western backpackers in their 20's, unwashed, unshaven and mostly stoned on cheap weed, dancing their hearts out, some NGO-types in Cambodia to "do good", a motley collection of lo-end Sexpats and Expats with jobs, from low-pay, low-status teaching English to managers for Western multi-nationals......outside the entrance door, tough Khmer security guys, off-duty police and army, patting everyone down for drugs, guns and knives.....inside Khmer Freelancer girls moving slowly through the crowd, looking for customers, like colorful fish hunting for food  around a coral reef.........

Phnom Penh Noir - Beer Garden Girl Street 51

"Beer Garden Girl Street 51" - ChrisColes

The Street 51 Beer Garden attracts hundreds of people every night, high to low to homeless street kids.....Expats, Khmers, backpackers, NGO-guys....hookers, ladyboys, staff and food vendors...no rules, no boundries, Premier League on plasma tv's, multiple music tracks, pool tables....it's funky and fun......but beneath the surface, there's a river of noir.........

Street 51 Girl Phnom Penh

Street 51 Girl Phnom Penh - Chris Coles

In the hot Phnom Penh night, Street 51 is busy until 4 or 5am, hundreds of Expats, male and female, old and young, decrepit and healthy, from NGO types to hardened Sexpats, hundreds of Khmer girls, mostly freelancers, lots of food stalls, a beer garden, hostess bars, a couple of discos, Pontoon and Heart....tuk tuk and motorcycle taxi guys in abundance, selling rides, girls, boys and hashish, some African guys selling the more serious stuff...litter and garbage in every direction.....

(my Night Vision show opens at Meta House in Phnom Penh 6PM Friday, February 22nd....the Phnom Penh music group KROM performs at 7PM, my talk on German Expressionism and the Noir Vision in SE Asia starts at 8PM.......link for details:  http://www.khmer440.com/k/events/5402/chris-coles-night-vision-meta-house/ )

Polish Gentleman in Bangkok on his Way to Cambodia

Polish Gentleman in Bangkok on his Way to Cambodia - Chris Coles

........fresh from the cold, grey winter in Poland, he's stopped off in Bangkok on his way to Cambodia for a few weeks of adventure with sweet little Khmers...................is he an undercover priest or just an ordinary man.........whichever, for sure he's a sinner..............