R. Scott Davis Photography

The Dispatch Project is rooted in the documentarian tradition of the longform body of work with an emphasis on an inside perspective, drawing strength from proximity, duration and the interior perspectives of those living within the unfolding narrative.

A Portrait of Nurse Puan, Bangkok

A set of portraits from the Dispatch Project.

In this series of images the Bangkok CIFS [Central Institute of Forensic Science] teams perform their routine investigations.

The format of the Dispatch Project is rooted in the documentarian tradition of the long form immersive body of work with an emphasis on an inside perspective; the aesthetics of the project on the other hand operate in an experimental manner in order bring a more dynamic perspective to the narrative.

Coney Island, Brooklyn has this timeless Americana feel that I have been photographing since my student days and have revisited for decades. One evening I met public intellectual and scholar Norman Finkelstein and photographed him for his birthday.

This fisherwoman image shot near Vientiane in Laos is part of the “Of Rivers and Mantras: the Mekong System” series which was shot using a Hasselblad medium format film camera, the film then cross processed and custom drum scanned by myself in order to ensure that the very specific analog tonal values that I desired […]

Gulls on Diachi Lake IQ, Kunming Alice, Kunming Zhou, Kunming

Pradoo Seyha and Sreynich Srey Nich East Srey Nich East

These two images were taken in the late afternoon at the Kompong Khleang floating village of the Tonle Sap Lake and are a diptych of sorts. They were both shot on the same day and feature a similar approach to image composition that I refer to as “sliding quadrants”. The sensation of being both locked into […]

The Ennachet village is tucked away in a remote corner of the rice farming countryside of the Banan district in Battambang and is accessible only by navigating dusty etched dirt roads that are intractable during the rainy season. It is here that Seth lives with her family. When her mother Savoin and father Vanny can’t […]

Monk Beng Pok is the abbot at the Sampeau Mountain Buddhist temple known in Khmer as Wat Sampeau. Though he doesn’t know the exact date of his birth he was born in Phnom Sampeau region of Battambang in 1940. Sampeau Mountain is also notorious for the Killing Cave one of the locations where the Khmer […]

These three portraits of Srey Pich were taken through her bedroom window at her home in the dilapidated 1950’s movie theater the Hemakcheat now a slum dwelling in Phnom Penh.

You may recognize this temple from the original Tomb Raider film. Rain Tree A voluptuous Apsara Rain Tree Roots Crumble II

A boy eating his dinner in his floating home at dusk in the floating village of Kompong Chhnang. Most of the inhabitants of the floating villages in this region of the Tonle Sap Lake are not Khmer but rather Vietnamese nomads born into a stateless existence surviving off the sustenance of the lake and are […]

From sunset to sunrise at Koh Samui in the Gulf of Thailand there are these fleeting moments when the light is charged with deep intense shades of ultramarine blue. Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui

The mighty Mount Bromo, Mount Semeru and Mount Batok of the vast Tengger Caldera in Java, Indonesia. Mount Bromo

Hani, Jakarta, Indonesia

Pan a Muslim boat dweller from Phnom Penh strolling on a “beach” of sand dredged up from the Mekong River. Pan, Downcast The tonal values you see are a direct result of the experimental film cross processing and custom drum scanning done by myself. This is another image from the Of Rivers and Mantras series which was […]

Ny the fisherman outside his home at the Kompong Khleang floating village.

Kompong Khleang is the largest of the floating villages on the floodplains of the Tonlé Sap Lake and has a lost in time feel that I have been returning to and photographing for over 10 years now. The resilience of the villagers is something to behold; their capacity to survive the extreme hydrology of the […]

Criss crossing the Continental Divide where the crystal clear high altitude light cuts clean through the mountain air. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park, Brutal, Colorado

The province of Bạc Liêu and the tranquil town of the same name are located in the southern most region of the Mekong Delta. One of my objectives for visiting Bạc Liêu was to photograph an offshore wind farm, a vast open space where ocean, sky and these massive wind turbines intersect. These ubiquitous wind […]