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Quest for Land on BJP

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Olivier Laurent published an article about the release of ‘Quest for Land‘ for the iPad on iTunes in the ‘British Journal of Photography’. You can read it here… BJP is also an early adopter of the iPad. It is available here.

‘Quest for Land’ is available

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

‘Quest for Land’ is available on iTunes… It has been a long 11-year road, but there it is, ready to be scrutinised by your eyes…The dice have rolled, the story doesn’t belong to me only anymore. Here is a Youtube movie showing you how it works… And here are a few mock-ups of what you [...]

Now the U.N. knows for sure…

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Mr. Surya Subedi, U.N. Human Rights Special Envoy, visited the evicted Borei Keila community. If Ms. Suy Sophan head of the Phanimex company which evicted them gives a damn remains to be seen…

Boeung Kak Lake Courting

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

Boeung Kak Lake residents have been demonstrating out on the streets for most of this week. 6 of them received a summons to appear in front of the Municipal Court. A good occasion to target that building for a demonstration.

Labour Day March

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Some 3000 factory workers, a string of tuk-tuks and a group from Boeung Kak Lake celebrated Labour Day in phnom Penh, marching from Wat Phnom to the National Assembly. More pictures here, here and here…

Boeung Kak Unchained

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Some 250 Boeung Kak Lake residents, 5 of them chained together, and accompanied by a number of residents from the evicted Borei Keila community, walked all the way from the lake to the Japanese Embassy via the US Embassy and the Senate to deliver yet another petition requesting that the authorities clearly mark the 12,44 [...]

Guinea Pigs 5 and 1

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

I continue showing around the ‘Quest for Land’ for iPad before submitting it to Apple. People never having used an iPad don’t seem to be lost in the navigation. We might have scored some good points here… Guinea Pig Nr 5: François was an editor at the now defunct ‘Cambodge Soir’, left for France and [...]

Guinea Pig 3

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Ben Woods swiping and tapping ‘Quest for Land‘ on my iPad… Ben takes photographs too. He saw a lot of Reds (Thai Reds) the previous W.E. in Siem Reap for the Cambodia Daily.