Interview with Asian Model J.

J. was another model who contacted me in response to my Craigslist post.  Though born in the U.S., her family had originally come from Cambodia.  Now J. lives with her bf on 83rd Street but to the west of my own address.  She's a student at Hunter where she's majoring in studio art.

J. and I met at Cafe Lalo and talked for about twenty minutes while I explained my project to her.  She was interested and wanted to participate.  We also talked about Cambodia and Southeast Asian in general.  One of my ideas has been that in a few years I would relocated to Thailand, where a fixed income would go further, and spend my time traveling to Buddhist monasteries and photographing the ruins and images of the Buddha.  I don't know if I'll actually be able to carry it that far, but at least I can return to Thailand for a few weeks at a time and do my photography then.  In the meantime, I learned from J. that if Cambodia is not quite stabilized, it's still much safer to travel through than it was a decade ago.