Whilst working in a Cambodian Hospital, in the early 2000s, Andreas Dietl, then a paediatric surgeon with a passion for photography, decided to document the everyday of the hospital environment and its people. Colleagues, patients, families. Their everyday as witnessed by the photographer was not beautiful in the conventional sense. It was a reality surrounded by pain, poverty, fatigue and a uniquely raw sense of human condition. And through his photographs, Andreas attempts to find a new meaning to what many westerners take for granted: life.

In every gaze, in every wound and every face, the photographer rediscovers a will to live. An ode to the innocence of children whose circumstances of life are not only confronting but revealing to a viewer who having not be present can truly be previewed to life’s enduring uncomfortable truths. 

In German, the word bewegt means “moved.”

Text and curation by Tatiana Hopper