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Archive for June, 2010

60000

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Some 120 people representing 24 rural and urban communities tried to march from the gardens in front of Wat Bothum to the house of Prime Minister Hun Sen to hand him 3 boxes containing a petition signed by about 60000 people demanding their land rigths be shown respect. About 30 riot police prevented them from […]

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Monday, June 14th, 2010

From the same take as before…

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Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Day before yesterday’s take…

Risks 31

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

Yesterday’s…

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Friday, June 11th, 2010

Went back to the waterfront pagoda again. Wanted to shoot video and ended up shooting a lot of stills as well…

Before and After

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Welll… Probably not. Sorry, after seeing that modest little hideout in Tuol Kork, I couldn’t resist comparing it to this soon-to-be extravagant shelter.

A Convenient Fire (Update)

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Early March the Boeung Kak II community was gutted by a fire. It seems that my foreboding was correct. Negotiations to have the community move somewhere else, far from there, are under way. Total disappearance would probably be even more convenient for the negotiating authorities.

Back in Time: World Cup 1986

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

In 1986 I was asked by the French daily Libération to cover the World Cup in Mexico. Well, more the atmosphere around the competition than the game itself. Maybe you’ll have a hard time imagining this but it still was a non-digital world. Every second day I spent hours in traffic jams on the way […]