Find Your Light, Tell Your Story is a portrait photography exhibition showcases the graduation works of twenty-two emerging photographers from the Creative Masterclass @ Raintree: Portrait Photography & Storytelling, led by artist-instructor Tytaart and presented by Sony Cambodia in partnership with Raintree.

This guide offers behind-the-lens perspectives that complement the exhibition across all floors—inviting you to look closer, linger longer, and uncover the stories behind each diptych on display.

About the Exhibition

After four weeks of collaborative learning, deep reflection, and creative exploration, the photographers present a powerful collection of diptychs—pairs of images in conversation—crafted to explore stories that are deeply personal, emotional, and authentic.

These works delve into themes that matter most to the photographers: the search for identity, the complexities of change, reflections on environmental and human challenges, and the quiet beauty of everyday life. This is not a singular narrative but a chorus of voices—each distinct, yet connected by a shared desire to understand and express.

At its core, Find Your Light, Tell Your Story is about dialogue. Photography becomes more than a visual medium—it is a tool for connection, healing, and meaning-making. By embracing vulnerability and authenticity, the exhibition creates space for conversation—between artist and viewer, image and emotion, self and other.

This exhibition celebrates the courage to speak, the need to be seen, and the enduring power of storytelling through art. It invites you to find your own light in these images and reflect on the stories you, too, carry as you journey through portraiture as storytelling—from the ground floor to the rooftop of Raintree.

This learning cohort brings together the diversity of life leading behind the lens. Among the twenty two photographers are technologists, filmmakers, civil servants, finance experts, students, and beyond. Through their lenses, we’re reminded of our shared humanity and the power of personal truth.

Ground Floor
The Journey to Creative Expression

Open the mailboxes on display and glimpse into each photographer’s creative path, from early sketches and poems to the visual form their stories eventually took.

1 Floor
The Search for Identity

Through themes of belonging, memory, and heritage, the photographers reflect on how identity is shaped, challenged, and expressed in an ever-changing world.

Click below to explore the stories behind each diptych.

Photographer: Kim Chanlida
Model: Doung Sreyveth
Kim Chanlida is an illustrator and fashion designer with a deep interest in blending visual storytelling with design. She is the co-founder of Where’s Kim, a small creative brand born from a shared passion for self-expression through fashion. With a background in fashion design, Chanlida’s creative journey has expanded into photography—particularly drawn to the process of image-making, where clothing, mood, and narrative intersect to tell human stories.
Invisible
This diptych explores the quiet ache of feeling unseen. The subject is caught in a liminal space—between self and society, between being watched and being understood. In the black-and-white image, she gazes outward, searching for recognition, longing to be truly seen. In contrast, the colour portrait reveals the richness within: her inner creativity, beauty, and potential—even the parts she hasn’t yet come to fully know.

Blurred layers and reflections trace the tension between perception and identity, offering a tender meditation on invisibility, self-worth, and the journey toward self-recognition.
Photographer: Monalisa Khun
Model: Seng Sunheng
This project is a deeply personal response to the quiet pressure I’ve felt as a woman approaching 30. Like many others, I’ve felt caught in the “rat race”—rushing to meet expectations that often aren’t our own. We’re told when to marry, what job to have, how much to earn. It’s an age of responsibility: caring for aging parents, building a future, and somehow trying to find yourself in the middle of it all.

I found myself pushing forward without pause, constantly suspended in motion. That feeling led me to The Hanged Man—a symbol that gave shape to what I couldn’t yet name.
The Hanged Man
Who is The Hanged Man?
In Tarot, The Hanged Man is one of the most powerful—and often misunderstood—archetypes. It depicts a figure suspended upside down, yet perfectly calm, with a halo glowing around their head. It’s not a symbol of suffering, but of surrender, reflection, and a shift in perspective.
The figure chooses to pause. And through that stillness, wisdom emerges.
I chose this image because I saw myself in it—suspended not by failure, but by the weight of expectations. But The Hanged Man isn’t a victim. They observe, they listen, and they wait with quiet strength. They taught me that I don’t have to be ruled by fear. I can choose to move through life with calm and clarity.
Through these images, I invite you to do the same. Let go of timelines that aren’t yours. Pause when you need to. Look inward. Let the light around you—however small—guide you back to yourself.

Even if we stumble, we don’t fail at life.
We learn. We soften. We begin again.
Photographer: Ming Guang
Model: N/A
Based in Phnom Penh, Ming Guang is an interior architecture graduate who now runs his own fashion label, Gorpsual. His creative journey into photography began with a simple tool—his first iPhone 4s—and a growing fascination with capturing moments that hold emotion, energy, and meaning.
For Ming, photography is not about perfection. It’s about paying attention: to the environment, to feelings, to fleeting expressions that might otherwise go unnoticed.
The Left Side of Us
These two pieces don’t come with a description. And that’s intentional.
You’re invited to slow down, take your time, and notice what comes up for you. What do you feel? And why?
Nearby, you’ll find a folded piece of paper. Sit with the work. Sit with yourself. Then unfold the paper—and reflect on your own emotion in that moment.
That feeling you discover?
That is the description.
Photographer: Khun Lisa (Camera Settings, Concept, and Directed by Seng Chhunheng)
Model: Seng Chhunheng
Nurturing, always wanting to help, yet fragile from inside. I carry both softness and strength, often balancing the desire to protect others with the journey of protecting myself.
I once believed in the right time and right people, potential and ideal, expectation and positivity…though I still now believe in it but I am moving through life with curiosity and reflection, learning to embrace change, loss, and growth as part of my becoming.
Photography, for me, is not just about translating emotion into form. I approach each image with honesty and vulnerability, using visual language as a way to process memory, loss, and transformation.
Title: What Remains, What Becomes

Image 1: The Empty Space
Theme: Grief, absence, the soil before growth.
In this image, there is me sitting with deep sadness, isolation, or emotional pain. The hugging posture and downward gaze suggest someone seeking comfort or protection.
If you look closely, you will see the empty cup on the side. It was once a couple-cup but now it is just a cup without water. Metaporically, it is representing the love that is no longer shared. The silver ring was once “the anniversary ring” with missing its gem on the middle finger representing the broken promise and the grief process while the revealing clothes represent screaming the lack of protection, held, and fragile. Eyes gaze with longing, skin pale, hands hugging self are trying to deliver the silent screaming “Do you see my pain? Please don’t look away!”
Image 2: The Blooming Self (The Empress)
Theme: Rebirth, nurturing, becoming The Empress.
In this image, it represents presence, dignity, and growth. Following the Empress card from Tarot, I chose to wear white shirt to represent the royal ceremonial, yellow Lilly as her scaptor, Monstera on the right as its nature represent openness to growth and new perspectives after heartbreak while with its climbing nature and tropical abundant, it represents upward journey, resilience and thriving. On the left side is ficus benjamina acknowledges the tears of the empress shed, but it's still beautiful and strong while its Air purifying ability cleansing the empress emotional environment and filtering out toxicity. Overall, I embody solemnity and dignity as I am holding the flowers not as decoration, but as symbols of survival and rebirth. My expression, I am wearing the bridges of the story: “I have known what it means to shrink, to hide, to ache. And I have also known what it means to rise, to nurture, to begin again.”
Photographer: Moeun Sokleng
Model: Mey Sopha

Sokleng works professionally in marketing, but beyond the world of strategy and campaigns, he finds meaning in stories — especially those carried quietly by people. A lover of history and human resilience, Sokleng is drawn to uncovering personal narratives from the past and understanding how individuals endured and transformed through hardship.
Photography, now a new favorite pursuit, has become his way of giving these stories form — capturing not just photos but the invisible weight of memory and survival. Through the lens, Sokleng seeks to preserve fragments of history, offering a space for reflection on humanity, compassion, and the strength of human spirit.
“Traitor of Angkar - ជនក្បត់អង្គការ” by Moeun Sokleng
Mey Sopha — a Khmer Rouge survival grandpa — once confessed that he had been a member of the communist party, the “Angkar.” At first, he followed orders without fully understanding their cruelty, but soon he could no longer ignore what he witnessed. His own unit carried out killings in brutal ways — some so haunting that he could never erase them from memory. In his village, one of the most common methods was to seize children and smash them against palm trees “ដើមត្នោត”. Their innocent lives taken as if they meant nothing. With each act of violence, he felt his soul slipping deeper into darkness.
The breaking point came when he learned how badly the “Angkar” treated Buddhist monks while Sopha had once worn the saffron robe himself. To them, monks were the lowest of all, called “វណ្ណៈផុតលេខ” — useless, living off the gifts of others. But for him, monks were the soul of Cambodia itself, the keepers of wisdom, compassion, and culture. To see them degraded and murdered was unbearable. It was then he chose to break away, even knowing it meant being branded a traitor. His own comrades turned against him, chasing him down to erase him like the others. Risking everything, he ran for his life — through fear, through hunger, through the shadows of a regime that wanted him dead. Against all odds, he survived.
Reflecting back, he said: “សម័យហ្នឹងអ្នកណាក៏ខ្លាចដែរអង្គការ អ្នកណាក៏ចង់រស់ដែរ។ តែបើដើម្បីរស់ ត្រូវក្បត់ជាតិ ក្បត់អត្តសញ្ញាណខ្លួនឯង អាហ្នឹងមិនដឹងរស់ដើម្បីអីទេ តាសុខចិត្តប្រថុយស្លាប់ប្រសើរជាង”.

Meaning that “Everyone fears Angkar and to survive was what everyone wished for back then, but to survive by betraying my people and identity is no survival at all.”

Concept:
The first portrait is Grandpa Sopha himself telling me his story while feeling regretful and hurt. This may look like just another portrait of elderly in this but the palm tree directly placed below him is like the heart that always hurts for it contains the darkest and deepest tragic memory which haunts him every time he tells this very touching story. The contrast exposure of dark and bright is just to tell that it's just a memory, he somehow moved on and found his light back already.

2 Floor
The Complexities of Change

Change is constant, but rarely straightforward. These diptychs reflect the emotional terrain of transition: the tension between holding on and letting go, and the inner shifts that define who we become.

Click below to explore the stories behind each diptych.

Photographer: Chai Hok
Model: Suneng Eun
Heangchay Hok, known as Chai Hok, is a UX designer and self-taught photographer. Alongside his work in user research, crafting user-friendly and impactful interfaces, and practising user-centred design, he is passionate about capturing the subtle beauty of everyday life. From streets and landscapes to lifestyle and food, his photography reveals fleeting stories often overlooked by the eye. Portraits are a new area of exploration for him, and with Tytaart’s support, he now uses them to share human emotions and stories.
Silent Battles, Quiet Bloom
This girl, like many others, lives with hidden anxiety. It’s not always easy to share — even with those closest to her. Sometimes it comes from within: insecurity, self-doubt, perfectionism. Other times, it’s shaped by the outside world: work pressures, deadlines, expectations. To some, her struggles might seem small — or even laughable — but to her, they are heavy and exhausting.
Over time, she realises that even the people who care deeply for her cannot fight this battle for her. The turning point comes when she decides to confront her fear and find her own coping mechanisms. They may seem unusual to others, but they bring her relief, resilience, and strength from within.
Though anxiety never disappears completely, she learns to live with it — to see it not only as a burden but also as a teacher. For her, anxiety becomes a reminder that imperfection is part of life, and that strength is born from struggle.
Photographer: Kun Chansophea
Model: N/A
Kun Chansophea is guided by curiosity, and it has led her to explore photography. For her, photography is a way of slowing down, and connecting with simple moments that often go unseen.

From Held to Holding
The first photo, a cup held in both hands, reflects a time of being protected and cared for — the comfort of being gently carried in someone else’s hands.
The second, a pot holding a plant, speaks of independence and the journey of life. Now the pot carries a life of its own to care for; as the plant grows, the pot bears more weight — the bigger the plant becomes, the heavier the burden the pot carries alone. Yet through darkness and light…each day it grows.
Photographer: Kong Maidalin
Models: Dalis (younger self), Laiheang (adult self)
Maidalin Kong is a self-taught photographer whose journey began only recently. Initially intimidated by cameras and hesitant to photograph others, she discovered her passion while running a hiking tour agency. Using her boyfriend’s old digital camera, she began capturing her travels across remote regions of Cambodia.
Meeting remarkable local people and exploring diverse landscapes opened her eyes to the power of storytelling through imagery. She came to realise that photography isn’t just about beautiful pictures — it’s about capturing meaning. Since then, she has committed to creating images that tell stories, preserve experiences, and reveal the worlds she has been part of, so others can see and feel them too.
What We Lose When We Understand
This work stems from a realisation I had about growing up. As a child, I would watch other people’s lives, wondering what happiness felt like from the inside. I felt so real, so present in my own skin, while their world seemed mysterious and unreachable.
Now, I understand those moments I used to observe. I know what it’s like to go to school with close friends, what shared glances mean, and why people laugh together. I have the answers to my childhood questions — but somewhere along the way, I started disappearing. The clearer the world became, the more transparent I felt.
It’s as if I traded my solid sense of self for an understanding of everyone else. I can see their stories perfectly now, but I’ve become a reflection of my own life. I thought I had achieved what I wanted, only to realise I don’t know what I want as an adult. I suppose most of us experience this tension multiple times throughout our lives, as we grow and change…
Photographer: Mao Angkearith
Models: Sar Marina + Baby
Angkearith Mao is a brand strategist, designer, and educator. He is a co-founder and strategy director at Anagata. He uses design and strategy to create meaningful change for his clients, his community, and, hopefully, for Cambodia as a whole. Deeply passionate about nurturing and empowering the next generation of designers, he brings thoughtfulness and purpose to every aspect of his work.
A curious learner at heart, Angkearith enjoys exploring new creative disciplines in his spare time. He is currently learning photography and filmmaking.
Tethered
To be tethered is to belong. The single red line connecting these two images is a metaphor. It represents the umbilical cord—our first tether—and the primal, unseen lifeline that anchors us to our mothers, as well as the history they carry within them. It is the invisible pull of memory, the quiet hum of a shared heartbeat, the current of strength that flows from one generation to the next. The two frames reveal the profound evolution of this bond: we see the child, once tethered to her source, become the anchor for a new life. The role is passed, the connection renewed. Ultimately, Tethered suggests that we are bound, by a symbolic thread, to the women who gave us life—forever held by a love that defines and strengthens our place in the world.
Photographer: Noun Silyvann
Model: N/A
Silyvann loves capturing what draws her attention and the moments she treasures. She appreciates photography for its ability to capture and freeze the essence of a moment, reveal the quiet depth of a personality, or preserve a silent emotion suspended in time.
Bloom & Become
In youth, she holds her dreams tenderly—fragile with possibility, uncertain of the long road ahead, yet holding tightly to hope as the path stretches before her. With age, those same dreams are shaped by experience, folded by time, and deepened by resilience. What begins as an open vision becomes a form crafted through living, a reminder that transformation is not loss, but becoming.
Photographer: Prok Kaktika
Model: Prok Kaktika

From written words to visual imagery, photography and film have become powerful tools of storytelling and self-expression for this late-blooming creative.
With a Bachelor's degree in English for Business Communication, Kaktika began her professional journey in branding and marketing within the fashion retail industry, where she worked for over three years. Through her involvement in various marketing campaigns, her passion for storytelling grew stronger, ultimately inspiring her to pursue a degree in Creative Multimedia at Norton University — a step towards transforming her hobbies into professional skills.
Looking ahead, she hopes to travel the world, meet new people, and listen to their stories. Her aspiration is to connect those stories to a wider audience through photography and film — to “make the unseen seen, and the unheard heard.”
My Becoming
Embracing my old self, Stepping into the self ahead
“My Becoming” is a visual reflection on the process of personal transformation. It explores the tension between strength and loss, between the comfort of the past and the unfamiliarity of growth. In these images, the mirror becomes a space where my old self — the child, her values, her softness, her dreams — meets my emerging self, more resilient yet still searching for balance. This work is not about rejecting who I was, but about embracing her, carrying her forward, and allowing both tenderness and strength to coexist within me.
I separated this concept into two parts: The Embrace of Inner Child and The Becoming. With my friend’s support to prepare lighting and props, I took these two photos in my room — the place that has witnessed all my falls and rises through my transformational journey. I spent sleepless nights in my room reflecting on who I have become and what I have lost every day.

3 Floor
Reflections on Environment and Society

Resilience takes many forms. These works confront personal and collective challenges, inviting us to reflect on our responsibilities to each other, and to the fragile world we call home.

Click below to explore the stories behind each diptych.

Photographer: Khon Raksa
Model: Sun Sothearo

Khon Raksa, aka Khon R, is a Cambodian photographer and filmmaker whose work explores the fragility, beauty, and complexity of life. Through images and stories, she captures quiet moments, fleeting gestures, and emotional landscapes to express her view of the world around her.
The Bloom and the Blind
We know life asks to be embraced, yet so often we do not know how. In that space between knowing and not knowing, we become suffocated, restless, and adrift — caught in the quiet misery of turning away from what might have been held with tenderness.
Photographer: Kob Romly Kob
Model: N/A

Romly is a System Administrator at Glean Asia. Although he no longer works in a field related to photography, he truly loves it and has recently begun to explore it more. Previously, he didn’t know any of the camera’s functions, but after joining a workshop with Tytaart—supported by Sony and Raintree—this experience has made Romly love photography even more.
Not Every City Light Gets Bright
This is a 25-year-old man from Prey Veng Province who lives and works in various places across Cambodia. Each time he works, he stays in a small wooden shelter on the edge of a construction site, as seen in the first image. The shelter is not sturdy against rain or cold, but it is the only place where he can rest after long days of work.
He is on the job, covered in dust and mud, operating heavy machinery alongside other workers. He builds the city’s strong foundations while living in fragile conditions himself.
This shows that his life in the city is not bright, reminding us that Not Every City Light Gets Bright.
Photographer: Leang Chanthy
Model: Leang Ratana
Chanthy is a lifelong development practitioner who is passionate about addressing social issues like health, education, and environment. With a curious mind, her interests vary and one of which is photography. She particularly enjoys shooting architecture, nature and life on the street with her own phone. Portrait and shooting with a proper camera are new to her but she has loved and appreciated every moment of it with Tytaart. She hopes to continue to learn and perhaps one day be able to use her photographs to tell the stories that can bring change to how people think about our world.
Interdependence
All life is interrelated.
This diptych explores the critical bond between humanity and nature. It aims to express the growing concern about our environment and bring awareness to the viewers of our shared destiny and responsibilities.
The scorched branches speak to our slow, deliberate neglect of the environment, a quiet fire fuelled by our daily existence and choices whether intentionally, unknowingly or ignorantly by choosing to live the way we do. The haunting image of a young boy inhaling from an oxygen mask symbolizes the poisoned air and our fragile future. The absence of colour strips away distractions, revealing a grim truth: the life we burn is our own.
Ultimately, this work serves as a sombre warning and a call to action, urging us to honour the bond from which we are bound from birth and to take our individual actions to preserve nature so that we can co-exist harmoniously.
Photographer: Phe Lily aka ARTFART
Model: Juvie Lin
Artfart is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and digital illustration, with an academic background in design and architecture. Their creative journey reflects a pivot, stepping away from conventional paths to fully embrace art as a means to self discovery and expression. Photography is a new medium they are experimenting with, as an expanding part of their practice.
Cat Therapy
The diptych is a visual dialogue between anxiety and healing.
Juvie, aka “DJ Anxi“ (as I like to call him), is an artist, musician, creative director, filmmaker, dancer—and now a father to four kittens. Positioned side by side, the two photographs portray a contrast: anxiousness versus recovery, chaos versus calm, cluster versus comfort.
Shot using a single source of light, the moody atmosphere casts vivid, almost surreal colours, mirroring the internal landscape of anxiety. The presence of cats, borrowed from motifs in Japanese literature, serves as a quiet symbol of healing, care, and return to softness.
Photographer: Vat Liny
Model: Megan Ly
By day, Liny navigates the world of finance and numbers. In her own time, she finds refuge in creative pursuits. Her love for photography began with old cameras which she started collecting as a student and came to cherish the deliberate, analog process.
Photography is, quite simply, an invitation to see the world through her eyes. She focuses her lens on her people, patiently observing, in search of the decisive moment — the unscripted instant when an authentic story unfolds.
Chronostasis
Have you ever felt a second refuse to pass? A moment so still, it’s as though Time itself is holding its breath. Chronostasis names this perceptual illusion, when a glance at the clock makes the moment stretch unbearably long.
This diptych reimagines that phenomenon as a metaphor for the paradox of living with social anxiety — the paralyzing suspension between a yearning to be seen and a desperate urge to vanish. Each panel embodies this contradiction in its own way. Which is the cry for presence and which is the plea for absence remains for you to decide. Your interpretation completes the work.
Photographer: Ngeth Voeunsothearith
Model: Chheng Seavleng (representing Thearith’s mother)
Ngeth Voeunsothearith is a government officer at the National Bank of Cambodia with a background in banking, finance, and professional communication. Currently in a period of exploration, he has been exploring various hobbies in search of something that resonates deeply with his identity. Photography has become his current focus and holds significant meaning for him. This is the foundation of the artwork presented in this vertical exhibition.
Could’ve Would’ve Should’ve
A mirror doesn't just reflect — it reveals. Could’ve, Would’ve, Should’ve explores the quiet tension between who we are and who we might have been. Through the lens of portrait photography, this piece reflects on my mother’s life, split between reality and possibility.
The primary image shows my mother as she is today — a symbol of strength, resilience, and sacrifice. But in the mirrored reflection, another version of her emerges: one shaped by different choices, unfulfilled dreams, and paths not taken. Could she have been a government officer? Would she have pursued a higher degree? Or should she have followed a different life if circumstances had allowed?
By using composition techniques like the rule of thirds and a little bit of diagonals, this photograph encourages viewers to pause — to see both the present and the imagined. It’s not just a portrait of one woman, but a meditation on potential, sacrifice, and the unseen narratives carried by the women who raise us.
The Creative Masterclass has guided my thoughts to take and see a photo in a new way. More than just learning to take photos, it has helped me see — and share — what lives beyond the surface.

Rooftop Floor
The Quiet Beauty of Everyday Life

There is poetry in the ordinary. These images celebrate the overlooked—small gestures, daily rituals, familiar scenes—reminding us that beauty often lives in the moments we pass by.

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Photographer: Kimsros Choek
Location: Kampot (Kampung Trach)
Flames of Faith.
At the heart of devotion lies a silence—a silence louder than words, carried by light and ritual. These images follow a woman in prayer, holding two burning candles before a shrine of Buddha statues. Her gesture is simple yet profound: offering light in darkness, surrendering her worries to something greater.
The flame represents continuity, passed through generations, uniting the past with the present. The cave, deep and eternal, surrounds her like the weight of time, yet her presence radiates calm resilience.
For her, this moment is not only about asking, but about remembering, connecting, and giving thanks. For us, the viewers, it is a reminder that faith in any form can illuminate the darkest places, both outside and within.
Photographer: Meas Sothyrorth (Ms. Silky)
Model: Pisey
Once bound by the rigid worlds of finance and policy, Ms. Silky felt her creative spirit drift into silence. Photography became the key that unlocked her return like an alchemy of light and shadow, where lost visions breathe again. Through her lens, she weaves freedom into form, transforming structure into poetry, she hopes.
T-Greet: Concealment
In the shadows of broken family ties and financial hardship, a young soul learns to stand firm. Her gaze carries both silence and strength; an unspoken resilience. Even in struggle, she greets the world with quiet courage, walking forward with light still burning within. A face, half-claimed by shadow, leans toward the light as if reaching from within its own shelter. The fabric, fragile yet enduring, becomes more than a covering. It carries the weight of memory, a soft architecture of resilience.
Behind another veil, flowers linger in half-light. Their colors tender yellows, flushed pinks and press gently against the gauze, as though memory itself has laid its hand upon them. They do not shout their presence; they murmur, they wait. The blur does not silence them, but transforms them into something imagined, a beauty glimpsed in passing.
Together, face and bloom echo one another: both reaching outward, both retreating inwards. What is hidden is never gone; it deepens, it ripens, it waits beneath the surface. In this threshold between seen and unseen, identity and memory gather their quiet strength—not in revelation alone, but in the sacred act of withholding. These images breathe in the space between concealment and expression.
Photographer: Sor Seyha
Model: Alonzo, Climber

Seyha is an experienced rock climber known for pushing physical and mental limits on rock faces around Cambodia. Specializing in Bouldering and Lead climbing, Seyha combines strength, technique, and deep respect for nature to navigate some of the most challenging routes in Cambodia.
When not climbing, Seyha is involved in coaching the climbing community and inspiring the next generation of climbers.
Photographer: Thy Sofy, Co-Founder, Business Head of UKASA Creative
Model: Sofy and Karl LP
Thy Sofy is a visual storyteller who believes photography is a powerful art form, where every detail is intentionally curated to touch the heart. She is currently the co-founder and business head of UKASA Creative. With a background in digital media, she brings a unique perspective on creative communication. However, it is her hands-on experience both behind and in front of the camera that truly fuels her passion for the entire artistic process.
She is dedicated to crafting images that resonate on an emotional level and tell meaningful stories.
Muse: The InterConnection
Human connection, emotion, and time: what invisible force ties them together? Some call it fate. Others whisper of the red string theory. This force is mysterious, unpredictable, and yet breathtakingly beautiful. Without emotion, we are not human. Without humans, emotion has no meaning. Time is a silent observer. It influences everything, weaving its golden threads through every relationship.
Image 1: Muse
A connection is built upon trust, vulnerability, and intimate moments. It is not loud. Instead, it is a quiet and introspective moment, suspended in time. The bright yellow umbrella is more than a physical shelter. It is a vibrant symbol of the protection and private space we created together, shielded from the outside world. The moment of tranquil companionship, where emotion is not a sudden spark, but a deep and comforting presence.
Image 2: The Unbreakable Bond
Beyond quiet intimacy, there is an intense, tangible force that binds us. The red thread turns from myth into reality. It becomes a visible, unbreakable tether.
Scared yet willing to open up, fearful but choosing to hold your hand—it's an undeniable fact. Fate binds us together. Under the test of time, we struggle to see where this connection will lead, yet it remains a visible reality, a bond so beautiful it holds us together.
Photographer: Yous Ratha
Model: Ham Matt, 25, fisherman

Ratha Yous, known as Ah Ven, is a Communications Officer who is passionate about capturing stunning landscapes and joyful portraits to tell stories of human emotion and expression.
Working Hands, Living Hearts
Ham Matt, 25, grew up with the river. Since he was five, the net has been part of his hands, his life, and his story. As a Cambodian Muslim fisherman, he stands at the meeting of the Mekong and Tonle Sap, across from the Royal Palace. The water carries his memories, his work, his hope. The way he casts the net shows more than fishing; it shows patience, strength, and peace. In a world that often runs too fast, Ham Matt invites us to slow down, to see the quiet beauty, and to honour lives built on resilience.

Keep the Reflection Going

As you move beyond the final image, we invite you to carry these moments with you—fragments of image, memory, and meaning that continue to unfold long after you’ve left the space.

Thank you for being part of the conversation.

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This edition of the Vertical Exhibition is part of Creative Masterclass @ Raintree: Portrait Photography & Storytelling, led by artist-instructor Tytaart and presented by Sony Cambodia in partnership with Raintree.

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