Here are a few more photographs in the series ‘Development Landscapes’, showing the state of places where people were evicted from. The whole series, combined with landscape photographs of sites in the process of being evicted, will be featured in one of the ‘Mono’ e-books I am preparing for the iPad. There is a presentation […]
The moon is back… We have entered the Year of the Snake (see here)… The lions were stuffed with eggs and pig meat…
The ‘Veal Meru’ or cremation site (see the previous days here), is now open to the public. All the public. Not only the Cambodians. A good opportunity to sell the remaining stock of photographs of King Norodom Sihanouk or unrelated balloons. And also to knock on what looks like a solid construction and find out […]
The Year of the Snake is coming. The Chinese owners of big shops in central Phnom Penh invite the lion dancers to perform for good luck (also see here for the previous years). Yes, the Sony RX1 can shoot in colour. And does it pretty well.
Happy New Year of the Snake… Lunar New Year celebrations in Phnom Penh (here) and in Hanoi (here)
So… May his ashes rest in peace after a turbulent life. With a final procession the remains of King Norodom Sihanouk (see here and here) were carried from the ‘Veal Meru’, or cremation ground, to the Royal Palace, accompanied by his son King Norodom Sihamoni and his wife Queen Mother Monineath. We will now see […]
It turned out to be an in-between-day. I thought the remaining ashes from late King Norodom Sihanouk (see here or here) were going to be transported from the ‘Veal Meru’ or cremation site, to the Royal Palace this morning. But no. It will be tomorrow morning. There is already a slight feeling of ‘it is […]
Part of the ashes of the late King Norodom Sihanouk (see here or here) who was cremated yesterday were carried in a procession to a barge moored along the Tonle Sap. Once members of the Royal Family had boarded it was dragged to the confluence of the 4 rivers and the ashes were spread in […]