Bruce Sharp
The founder of the Mekong Network, Bruce Sharp lives in a very old house in Chicago, with three cats, two children, and one wife. He is currently the network administrator for a software development company, and maintains the Mekong Network websites in his spare time.
His photographs have appeared in several magazines and newspapers, including the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Reader. His photos from Cambodia appear in David Chandler's biography of Pol Pot, Brother Number One, and on the cover of Richard Lunn's book, Leaving Year Zero. As a writer, his publication credits include the Christian Science Monitor, the Providence Journal-Bulletin, and a number of other newspapers and magazines.
He has been involved with Cambodian issues since 1987, when he began tutoring refugees for the Cambodian Association of Illinois, and for the Southeast Asia Center.
He is currently working on several short stories and longer works of fiction, which he expects to languish indefinitely on the hard drive of his computer. He is also at work on a completely gratuitous site decidated to his photography, at www.kodachrome.net.
He can be contacted by email at cambodia@aol.com.