Eleven years ago, at roughly this time of the year, Dutch-Cambodian man Lim Chhay Lem took a leap of faith, leaving his home in the Netherlands for his ancestral homeland in Cambodia, a country of which he had virtually no experience or knowledge.
“All I knew was, the country’s economy is growing and people kind of looked similar to me,” says Chhay Lem (pictured), who was born in a Cambodian refugee camp in the mid-1980s on the Thai border after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, before moving to the Netherlands as a small boy.
