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Selling shells in opera costume

Published: 15 Jan 2017 - 04:39 am | Last Updated: 11 Nov 2021 - 11:36 pm
A customer buys a packet of dried river shells from Mak Sobin (L) in Phnom Penh on January 14, 2017. Mak Sobin, 25, who has been selling dried river shells as a snack for seven years, started wearing the opera costume 1.5 months ago as an attempt to attra

A customer buys a packet of dried river shells from Mak Sobin (L) in Phnom Penh on January 14, 2017. Mak Sobin, 25, who has been selling dried river shells as a snack for seven years, started wearing the opera costume 1.5 months ago as an attempt to attra

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