Previously based in the Maldives and now in Cambodia, I have worked with a number of local and international NGOs, mostly working in conservation and human rights. This includes Human Rights Watch, Global Witness, Fauna and Flora International, Oxfam, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and Blue Marine Foundation.
Koh Kong Province (Cambodia). Teng Koa, 61, shows photos of the communities' protests against the companies involved in the sugar cane plantations. He points to a photo of a community member whose foot was injured by a Government Military Police. Teng Koa was actively involved in leading protests of the community who protested on more than 50 occasions. The photographer, Ann Enn, was an active community member in the protests. His body was found in a sack on the side of a road in Koh Kong in 2006, aged 30 at the time of his death. It's suspected that he was murdered by someone working for one of the companies involved in the sugar cane plantations. © Andy Ball/Panos Pictures/Global Witness
Yor Village, Beng District, Oudomxay (Lao PDR). Ms. Yawai, a farmer and widow with 3 children, collects water from the village’s well. She spent much of her time alone at her house during the pandemic, struggling to afford even necessities, as a result of the economic fall out.© Andy Ball/UN Women
Koh Kong Province (Cambodia). A fisher casts their net at Peam Krasop Wildlife Sanctuary, thought to contain some of Southeast Asia’s best preserved mangrove forests . © Andy Ball/FFI
Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Garment factory workers arrive for work during the pandemic. © Andy Ball/CNV Internationaal
Laamu Atoll (Maldives). A researcher scans a pregnant reef manta ray in the Maldives using an underwater ultrasound scanner connected to an iPhone. The research was carried out as part of efforts to obtain the world’s first ever underwater ultrasound scans of wild reef manta rays. © Andy Ball/IMV Imaging/Manta Trust/University of Cambridge/Six Senses Laamu
Koh Kong Province (Cambodia). Chea Pheap, 29, at her sister's house in Chi Kor Loeu Commune, Koh Kong Province. She is now a mother of four but previously worked on the sugar cane fields for 2 to 3 years at the age of 14. She worked in the sugar cane fields for 6 to 7 days a week resulting in her missing school. “I wanted to go to school but because I worked in the fields I couldn’t. Now it’s too late”. © Andy Ball/Panos Pictures/Global Witness
Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Som Chandy, Union President at the Coalition for Cambodia Apparel Worker Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), teachers fellow garment workers how to use a phone application developed by the Union that more effectively surveys workers to negotiate for a higher living wage. © Andy Ball/CNV Internationaal
Koh Rong (Cambodia). Crab fishers deploy their nets off-shore from the Kong Rong Archipelago. © Andy Ball/FFI
Koh Kong Province (Cambodia). Et Chhai, 36, works on her sugar cane plantation on her 1.5 hectares of land in Chi Khor Loeu commune, Koh Kong Province, given to her as compensation by the Thai based sugar company KSL. Her family is the only one involved in the Tate & Lyle case that is growing sugar cane on their land. She lost 10 hectares of land as a result of the evictions by the Koh Kong sugar companies. "The company said they'd take our land, even if we didn't want to sell it. They came in the night and bulldozed it all". © Andy Ball/Panos Pictures/Global Witness
Phnom Penh (Cambodia). Yen Srey Oun, a garment factory worker, prepares dinner in her worker's accomodation room. The pandemic has had devastating impacts on those working in Cambodia's garment factory. As factories were forced to close, workers were laid off or received significant cuts to their wages. Consequently, many workers were confined to their worker’s accommodation, struggling to afford basic amenities and unable send money to support their families back home. © Andy Ball/CNV Internationaal
Anlung Pring, Kampot Province (Cambodia). Endangered Sarus crane, the world’s tallest flying bird, at the Anlung Pring wetlands, an area identified as an Important Bird Area and a non-breeding site for the species. © Andy Ball/Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
Anlung Pring, Kampot Province (Cambodia). Rangers patrol at the Anlung Pring wetlands, home to a population of non-breeding Endangered Siamese Cranes. © Andy Ball/Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust