"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street." Robert Doisneau 1912-1994

As a schoolboy I became used to being the subject of fascination for tourists who were visiting our small college beside the river Thames. The reason for this was simple; we had to wear a uniform of black tail coat, pin-striped trousers, black waistcoat every single day of our lives. I have often subsequently wondered how many photo albums lying in dusty attics in far flung corners of the world my mugshot appears in. Which is an inelegant way of saying how fascinating I find it the give and take of street photography.

Take this monk who I photographed in Cambodia near the wondrous temple of Banteay Srei about an hour's drive away from the main temple complexes of Angkor. He was not aware of the