Catching up with Cambodian elections related events in Phnom Penh, the morning after returning from abroad. Some 800-1000 people have spent their 3rd night out in the (relative) cold at ‘Freedom Place’. They are mostly too poor to go back and forth from their home in the province to the daily demonstrations organised by the […]
Just cut off some strings which tied me to Paris. A last walk up the Butte Montmartre… Feeling relieved. Back to Phnom Penh soon.
Inside the ‘cold room’ at the Magnum Paris office, where many negatives are safely stored in a fire proof, water proof (hopefully) space under a controlled temperature. I am little by little taking my negatives out of there to scan them (again) properly in Brussels. You have to live dangerously…
Sure looks like it… US soldiers used to call the place Pig Alley (Pigalle) right after the 40-45 war.
First time in a little more than 10 years I am in Brussels during late fall… It is rather tough… More on ‘This is not Belgium’ HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.
It took me a while to get used to this little RX1. I am a viewfinder photographer and have been one for quite some time now (that would be since I started photographing as a kid). To change to an electronic viewfinder or looking like one of the millions of tourists in Cambodia frozen into […]
At 4:00pm there was still no news about the negotiations with the factory management which might bring the 4-month long strike to an end. See also HERE. UPDATE: A solution, brokered by the Ministry of Labour, for the conflict opposing the workers of he SL Garment Ltd. factory to their direction for the last 4 […]
An ultimate negotiation between the unions and the direction of SL Garment Ltd factory will take place at 2:30pm today. The workers wait anxiously to know if their close to 4 months long strike will end and if their demands are finally met. SL Garment Ltd. factory provides goods to famous international brands like Gap, […]