The verdict has fallen: Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, ex Khmer Rouge leaders, are found guilty of crimes against humanity. They join Kaing Keak Eav, alias ‘Duch’ for a lifetime term in prison. So far five former Khmer Rouge have been brought in front of their judges and three got their sentence. Ieng Tirith escaped […]
My first conscious attempt to put together a story with photographs, while being afraid of photographing people: we’re talking railway sations in Brussels in 1975 and 1976… Part of an ongoing project called ‘This is not Belgium’. See HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE
Summertime is sifting through the old negatives to find unedited photographs and scanning time. For me at least… These might end up in ‘This is not Belgium’. Or maybe not. Part of an ongoing project called ‘This is not Belgium’. See HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE
So a Chinese investors pulls out of the Boeung Kak lake development, letting the air out of a bloated balloon… It is an old story by now, but with this split the last chapter of the Boeung Kak lake has not been written yet: 3000 families were evicted from Boeung Kak lake by a development […]
Here is a small sample of a story shot for ‘Libération’ back in 1986. There is much more AT THIS LINK.
How cynical can the Cambodian authorities be? On the day before the World Press Freedom Day, VOD journalist Lay Samean was beaten unconscious by auxiliary police forces armed with metal bars and wooden sticks. During the numerous violent crackdowns by authorities on demonstrators over the last few months, journalists have been relatively spared and were […]
If you have doubts about the possibility of having Labour Day parades nowadays in Cambodia, here are a few photographs from past ones in Phnom Penh. There is nothing wrong with them. They celebrate those who work to make some people rich… They celebrate those who make your designer’s t-shirt for a monthly salary which […]
It is raining. Good time for scanning never-edited photographs from the 80’s in Belgium. Might eventually feed the ‘This is not Belgium’ project… More on ‘This is not Belgium’ HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, or HERE… PS: I changed the layout of the weblog, giving you bigger photographs. But I lost all the sidebar content. […]