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There is a long interview about and around “Quest for Land” in Martin Brink’s “The Digital Photobook” blog… ‘Quest for Land‘ is available as an iApp on iTunes.

The Boeung Kak Lake community (here and here) was of course not going to sit still and was hoping to celebrate International Human Rights Day in a normal fashion. They planned to exercise their freedom of movement right but were prevented from doing so by numerous police forces. This is a follow-up post on the […]

Boeung Kak Lake (see here and here) still stands eerily empty since it was totally filled over a year ago by developmment company Shukaku Inc., evicting 3000 out of the 4000 families living on its edge in the process: 133 Ha of sand and dry grass, a few bushes. This is a follow-up post on […]

Following the Boeung Kak Lake (here and here) move of day before yesterday, and in an unprecedented show of gathered forces, representatives of 20 communities involved in land issues in the Phnom Penh area came together to deliver a petition at the Council of Ministers. All the access roads but one were blocked by police, […]

Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, fighting to keep their land since 2008 (here and here), hearing Prime Minister Hun Sen saying at a land titles distribution ceremony that people with land issues should come to him, took him at his word and tried to march to ‘Peace Palace’. A police blockade prevented them from leaving their […]

The ‘Development Landscapes’ set which you can visit here on my website, has a few more recent photographs. ‘Development Landscapes’ brings together pictures from places people were evicted from over the past ten years in Phnom Penh. The story is part of the ‘Quest for Land’ application for the iPad you can purchase (for 8.99$) […]

Enjoy them BIG: the photographs (except this one) of the demonstrations around ASEAN were bundled into one story on my website. See them here…

For the third consecutive day (see also here, here and here), members of Boeung Kak, Borei Keila and Pochentong Airport communities demonstrated in the filled-up Boeung Kak, in front – but at considerable distance – of the ‘Peace Palace’ where the ASEAN meetings take place, urging U.S. President Barack Obama to support them in the […]