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Match 111 is minding the deceased

The first picture is from a few stories I did in Pakistan to cover the expenses to get to the Afghan refugee camps in Peshawar…

PAKISTAN. Karachi. 21/10/1990: Member of NGO Edhi Ambulansi photographing corpse of homeless and unknown men found on the streets. The pictures are exposed at the dispensaries in town to allow identification.

PAKISTAN. Karachi. 21/10/1990: Member of NGO Edhi Ambulansi photographing corpse of homeless and unknown men found on the streets. The pictures are exposed at the dispensaries in town to allow identification.

CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 14/02/2006: Funeral of Chan Chuon, 72yrs, from Kompong Som, deceased on feb 13th in the park in front of Wat Botum where he was protesting the eviction from his land together with several hundreds of displaced from various provinces.

CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 14/02/2006: Funeral of Chan Chuon, 72yrs, from Kompong Som, deceased on feb 13th in the park in front of Wat Botum where he was protesting the eviction from his land together with several hundreds of displaced from various provinces.

Do you remember the rules for the ‘Match’ series?
Rule Nr 1: two pictures, similar in content or style, but taken 15 years apart.
Rule Nr 2: rules may be overruled…
Just one way to revisit the archive…

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