Between a press conference, a party for the ‘7 Days in Myanmar‘ project, and with blazing hot temperatures in the streets, I had only a short time to spend at the obvious: Schwedagon Pagoda. Luckily some families were having a ceremony for their child…
It is nearly all right. The fear has eased and comfort when photographing is slowly setting in. People keep politely asking me where I come from. Reminds me of ten years ago in Cambodia. And I now also know about the areas I am supposed to photograph for ‘7 Days in Myanmar‘: the Eastern Shan […]
I have been probing how people react to being photographed here on my first day in Yangon. Seems to be all right… It remains a challenge.
I’m off to Yangon to participate at ‘7 Days in Myanmar‘. It is very likely I will not be able to feed this blogging beast as often as usual, from today until May 8th. Here is what I did on my previous trips to Myanmar.
Quickly before my plane for Myanmar leaves tonight… The CNRP (Cambodian National Rescue Party), a fusion between the ‘Sam Rainsy Party’ and the ‘Human Rights Party’, staged a fairly successfull demonstration on ‘Democracy Square’, gathering some 2000 militants to request a ‘reset’ of the voters’s list ahead of the coming general elections in July. The […]
’30 Years for a Trial’ is both a report on the trial of Duch, the infamous director of S21, a Khmer Rouge interrogation centre where 15,000 people were tortured and killed, and a reflection on the difficulty of photographing the Cambodian genocide. With texts by Robert Carmichael, over 170 photographs by John Vink and a […]
So Chechenia is in the news… The U.S. news that is. Back in the late ’90’s they suffered a brutal repression by the Russians and were in the news there for quite a while. Here is a very small insight of what some of them went through: Chechen refugees in the Pankisi valley of neighbouring […]
The Khmer New year holidays are over, Tep Vanny, the Community Representative who was awarded the Global Leadership Award by the Vital Voices Foundation in Washington is back in Phnom Penh… So it is back to square one on the Boeung Kak Lake issue. The community felt misquoted by the (departing) Governor of Phnom Penh […]