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.
’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 [...]
‘Royal Silence’ is an e-book for the iPad with 185 photographs by John Vink about King Norodom Sihanouk’s passing away in October last year, marking the end of an era for the Cambodians. It contains photographs of the King upon his return from exile in 1991, as well as from the massive crowds grieving the [...]
Cambodia and Thailand were (yet again) at war back in 2008 for a territorial dispute… Soldiers on both sides died for a piece of land of 4,7Km2. But it is not just about the land. The stunning Preah Vihear temple, dating from the 10th and 11th century and with a distinct Angkorian architecture, is perched [...]
Or as they say here: ‘suos sdey chnam thmey’… Here are a few photographs of Khmer New Year celebrations over the years… And here is a set I did last year on Bokor Mountain…
Other performances not to be missed in the series of events and exhibitions of ‘Season of Cambodia‘ brought to New York by ‘Cambodian Living Arts’ are the master class and the concert given by Kong Nay playing the chapey and singing Khmer poems with a raspy voice. At times it is as if the Mississipi [...]
New Yorkers please take note: April 28th, 29th and 30th, the Guggenheim will host 3 performances of ‘Khmeropédies III‘, a choreography by Emmanuèle Phuon brought to you by Amrita Performing Arts. It will be among the latest events of ‘Seasons of Cambodia’, organised by ‘Cambodian Living Arts’ which has brought a whole series of performances [...]
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