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I just updated my website with the story Vietnam Hanoi Tet Streets. Enjoy…  

Yesterday shot some pictures -again- at Chhoeung Ek (the killing fields where the people interrogated at the Khmer Rouge S21 prison were executed). I have been there seven or eight times since 1989. It seems more and more teeth, brittle bones, still colourfull pieces of clothing come back to the surface… As a reminder…  

No pictures today… Been dealing for an office for ka-set (more on that later). It’s getting difficult: there is a frightening hike in rent prices. Many stories around of landlords doubling the rents for office spaces overnight… Tonight I meet Marc Georgen from Stern in the air-con atmosphere of The Royal. We’ll be working on I [...]

While I was updating my website with the latest pictures of Dey Krohom, the Technology Institute, yet another landmark of the Cambodian architecture of the “golden age” of Sangkum Reastr Niyum in the sixties is being destroyed. What will  replace it? A shopping mall? Rows of chinese compartments with chrome balconies?   

Let me introduce you to Okhna (honorary title) SREY Sothea. Born in 1957 from ordinary peasants, he is the head of 7NG company who will build these two towers on the Dey Krohom land. Some 25 km from the center of Phnom Penh, and next to his garment factory employing 1900 people, he built houses [...]

Sent a DVD with 193 recent images with a passenger to Paris… Mostly the Dey Krohom images, and also the portraits of the story in today’s Libération…

Took a portrait of Mr. Vann Molyvann yesterday (VIJ2008005G). As a young, thirtyish-year old  architect during the “Golden Age” of the sixties he dotted Phnom Penh with remarkable architectural landmarks (the Olympic Stadium, Suramarit theatre, the Building, and many others). He is 82 now and sees many of his buildings being either destroyed or disfigured. [...]

On January 7th, 1979, the Vietnamese army liberated Phnom Penh from the Khmer Rouge regime which brutally ruled over Cambodia for 3 years, 8 months and 20 days. Because of the Cold War dictating global politics at the time, the presence of the vietnamese army was used as a pretext to keep the Khmer Rouge as [...]