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Just trying to grow up. Cambodian refugee sees his Tacoma childhood in new photo book
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 3/3/2021 Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Mar. 3 The photos capture a time and a place specifically, the vibrant culture and life emanating from a single Chicago street corner in the early 1990s.
For Silong Chhun a Cambodian refugee who grew up 2,000 miles away on Tacoma s Eastside they could just as well tell the stories of his youth.
That s why Chhun, 42, is drawn to the photographs, he says. In black and white, they document the life he recalls during a time filled with both immense struggle and beauty. The photos don t show his friends or his family, but they might as well.