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Here is my entry to the Oskar Barnack Prize. You never know… There is a lot of good stuff out there…

Just a few follow-up pictures on the fire of the previous day…
I also went past the place where the Toeuk Thla fire took place in 2008. It was completey rebuilt, with wooden houses next to each other and little access to fire trucks. Ready for the next fire…

Some 150 houses were destroyed in a blaze which ripped through a settlement located between the railway tracks and Wat Neak Kavean, not far from Boeung Kak lake. With the rehabilitation of the railway system finally under way, I would be surprised the people from this settlement will be allowed to rebuild their house on [...]

Well, sort of… The picture selection and sequence for the 60-page publication on Cambodian land issues in a new magazine (more on this magazine later: buzz buzz buzz) is finished. Now I have to rewrite all the texts and the captions. That’s the toughest part… Means no rest yet. But worse: no new pictures for [...]

There have been a little more than 300 downloads of the The Quest dummy since it went public on January 7th. Thanks, keep’em coming and spread the word…
The Dey Krohom site is still empty except for a line of chemical toilets. One year after the eviction…The place some of them were evicted to is now [...]

It is a story I have been working on more or less constantly over the last 9 years: land issues in Cambodia. The National Assembly here in Cambodia just discussed a law making evictions for development purposes legal. That is how they solved the problem…
So now is a good time to introduce you to the [...]

As could be expected, the new story is about the fate of the people evicted from Dey Krohom one year ago.
All 378 families were dumped again, far from Phnom Penh, hidden from eyesight.
What a nice Xmass story…

Went back to Oudong at the relocation site for the 387 families from Damnak Trayoung, ex Dey Krohom evicted. I do have some doubts about this site. At least half of it, the part with the most families, will be flooded during rainy season. There is no drinking water, there are no latrines (there doesn’t [...]