Morning Rituals

Riding across Phnom Penh on the back of a motorcycle taxi at 6:00 AM, I get to see some parts of the city stretching to life and getting organized.

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Vendors waiting for customers
These women are at the bottom of the economic ladder. They get up at 3:00 AM and prepare foods to sell, then walk or bicycle to an area near a factory where they offer breakfast to the arriving factory workers.
Trucks for hire
These trucks, always painted blue, appear at designated locations every morning and wait for someone to hire them. It's the Cambodia equivalent of Ryder Truck Rental.


Washing the truck
If Cambodians have a vehicle there's almost an obsession with keeping it clean
Breakfast for construction workers
At the low end of the food service chain, poor women carry food on bamboo poles to work sites

Waking up at a construction site
Many construction workers in Cambodia have no home but live on the building site. Here workers prepare to meet the day.
Setting up the TV repair shop
Each morning this young man sets out the used and repaired televisions to signal that he's open for business.


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