© John Vink / Magnum Photos

 

Archive for February, 2013

Three Rivers Dams (5)

Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Cassava: you see it everywhere on the last 100km to Banlung. White patches neatly spread out for drying along the road, whole families peeling and chopping the roots, mountains of bags stuffed with the dry chunks waiting to be loaded on trucks, bald hills after harvest when the thin stems were cut and the root […]

Three Rivers Dams (4)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Just before Bar Kaev, not that far from Banlung on the smooth tarmac road to Vietnam: take a left on the dirt road, then a second left. There is a cashew nut plantation there. It is not big. It covers just a very small part of the thousands of hectares of cashew nut trees or […]

Three Rivers Dams (3)

Monday, February 25th, 2013

Taveang Leu, still on the banks of the Sesan river. Cambodia being Cambodia, crossing a rickety and dancing suspended bridge not just takes us across a small river. It projects us into another world. The indigenous Brao of the village had finished a ceremony to appease the spirits menacing a member of their community hospitalised […]

Three Rivers Dams (2)

Sunday, February 24th, 2013

Cambodia is developing fast. Very fast. It needs ever increasing numbers of Megawatts to feed its growth (and its neighbours’). Cambodia has rivers. Particularly in the more varied terrain of the Stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces. The solution to provide for more energy by building hydropower dams might seem obvious. Unfortunately this is a country […]

Three Rivers Dams (1)

Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

Sorry for the absence… I was out in the bushes this past weeks. Well… in what is left of the bushes, as most of the forest in Ratanakkiri province seems to have been replaced by rubber trees, cashew nut trees or cassava. In what might be the most interesting (and tragic) story about land issues […]

e-Books Available

Monday, February 18th, 2013

I am happy to announce that the first two titles of ‘Mono’, my series of e-books for the iPad, are now available on the iBookstore for the price of a hamburger (last time I checked in the Western world they were at 3,99$). The first e-book is ‘Same Saᴟe’. It contains a set of paired […]

The Olympics…

Saturday, February 16th, 2013

Sincere congratulations to the winners of the World Press Photo. The Olympic Games for photographers? Pierre de Coubertin said ‘The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.’ So here is one of the contributions I sent to ‘our’ […]

Khmeropédies III

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

The dancers from ‘Amrita Performing Arts‘ are rehearsing ‘Khmeropédies III’, a choreography by Emmanuèle Phuon (see previous takes on this here and here) in view of 3 representations they will give at the Guggenheim Museum in New York later this year. (The Sony RX1 is really struggling for this kind of work. The AF definitely […]