Family Archive Project

This project is a personal archive of photographs, documents, and maps tracing my family’s life before the Khmer Rouge, survival during its horrors, and resettlement as refugees in the United States. Through images of everyday moments, official records, and maps of the places they lived and fled, I am weaving together memory, history, and loss, a visual diary that gathers fragments of a past too often obscured. Created to organize my thoughts while I work on My Sisters Sleep in Battambang to trace my family’s gravesites, this collection holds both absence and presence, sorrow and resilience, allowing me to witness, remember, and begin to make sense of the lives shaped by displacement, survival, and the enduring hope to be seen.