Two years after falling off a galloping stock horse at the age of thirteen, I won the L K G Shaw Memorial Prize for Art. This put me in good stead to be the author of Ordinary Cambodia, a collection of echt observations about the mundane, extraordinary, and inventive everyday lives of Cambodians. All my life I have been collecting and observing. It has become a profession.
In between these special moments, I have been an exhibition designer and museum planning consultant for enormous and petite museums around the world.
Fifteen years ago, I tip-toed into the Kingdom with Jon De Rule to create Bambu Stage at Siem Reap. It was a special place for innovative shadow puppetry and live media theatre shows.
One memorable production, SNAP! 150 Years of Photography, evolved into my first book Photography in Cambodia: 1866 to the Present, published by Tuttle in 2022.
Ordinary Cambodia: Angels, Cactus, Eggs and Donuts is my next book, which my Hong Kong-based printer ignominiously calls a limp edition.
Photograph by Jack Meagher, CBF.
Nicholas Coffill
Photographs by Darryl Leon Collins.
If you find it difficult to get a copy of either of the two books, get in touch using the form below, and I'll have one delivered to you for free via Vireak Buntham Express
Museum Planning & Exhibition Design
Snapshots from thirty years of projects across Asia
Golden Mile Studio, Singapore. 1990s Meditations with china ink on paper
The Sibyl Kathigasu Story Papan Heritage Centre, Malaysia. 2012
Leisure and Waterways Putrajaya Maritime Museum, KL. 2001.
China Film Museum, Beijing. 2005 Kingsman China
Mobile Container Theatre Live Media Theatre (Singapore)
Suzhou City Interpretation Centre Kingsman China
Chinatown Heritage Centre, Singapore MUZEO Consultants. 1998
Jewish Memorial Theatre. 2002 Jewish History Museum, Amsterdam.
