Pick One
Let us pretend that you are leaping ahead in time and that you are in November 2012. And now let us also pretend that simultaneously you are attending the 5th anniversary of the Phnom Penh Photo festival. Each of the 80 photographers who had an exhibition the 4 previous years will be shown one photograph taken between the time of that exhibition and today.
Which one between these two photographs would you prefer to see in that exhibtion (taking into account that extreme metaphors are less prone to hurt local authorities’ sentiments)?..
CAMBODIA. Koh Chen (Kandal). 21/10/2011: Water buffalo seek refuge on the higher ground adjacent to the main road during the worst floods in a decade. Around 300,000 hectares of rice fields were destroyed.
From the story ‘Cambodia 2011 Floods‘…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Bat, Oudong (Kandal). 5/01/2012: Spilled rice grains at the relocation site for 120 families evicted from Borei Keila. The Phanimex company provided 25kg of rice to those permitted to stay.
From the story ‘Borei Keila Relocation‘…