[5][6] Born in a poor family in Prey Veng province, he says that his dream was actually to become an architect and he got a university scholarship for two years in 2012 but it was for engineering.

This job required that he take photographs and write some sports news articles, so in his spare time he took classes with the department of media and communications at the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

he always loved to study and has a deep appreciation for knowledge – got interested in drawing when he learned about the history of photography and how it was actually related to it.

Every weekend he went to learn drawing at the Champey Academy of Arts, hoping that this would help him to have a better understanding of frame when taking photographs.

But when he holds the chapey dang veng – a traditional Khmer instrument that looks like a long necked guitar – while wearing Khmer-style clothes, he captivates listeners with the sound of his music and singing.