AJA Summer JAM project

Never did I realize that I explained what I will be actually doing in Cambodia. I might have, but here is another explanation. Here it is everyone! I am interning for Access to Justice Asia, a recently new NGO. I will be part of the Summer JAM (Justice, Art and Memory) team. Our project will involve us working with the Khmer Kraom community in the Pursat and Takeo province. The Khmer Kraom or the "lowland khmers" are an indigenous group.The Khmer Kraom once occupied the south-eastern tip of a sprawling Kampuchea Krom empire for several generations, but retain deep linguistic, religious, customary and cultural links to Cambodia. Today the Khmer Kraom have been relegated to the southern tail of the state of Vietnam, in what is An Giang province.
What exactly are we doing? We are focusing on the Khmer Kraom community in the Pursat and Takeo provinces. Instead of focusing on the stories of the Khmer Rouge and the victimization of the Khmer Kraom or any Khmers in general that the journalists, photographers and ect have really focused on the past 20 years. We want to move away from that spectrum and focus on how the community has survived and perserve it's culture through photography. We want to move away from sites of crime to the sites of hopes and inspirations. We want to show what it means to be Khmer Kraom through their culture.