Boeung Kak Lake residents (still) unhappy about the response from the Municipality regarding the outlining of the 12 hectares for an on-site development took to the streets again, pulling straw puppets representing municipal security guards. They threw salt on them so they would melt in hell. They threw chilis on them so they would burn […]
See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: organising content, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: about editing, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: some more editing considerations and organising it Pictures? Check… Text? Check… That is the essence but it is not enough. There is a small loudspeaker in […]
See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: organising content, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: about editing Right, now there are about 750 pictures in the edit for ‘The Quest’ for iPad, spread across 20 different chapters. That is a lot of material. Much more than for […]
Yes, the women from Boeung Kak Lake and from Borei Keila did march the unauthorised march on International Women’s Day….
This is dedicated to the Khmer women who are ALWAYS at the forefront fighting injustice…
See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: organising content Editing, selecting the photographs: we do it all the time. It’s the trick of our trade. It starts before we even take a picture, out in the field, choosing what to photograph, deciding what we will […]
The ‘ripples’ are school stuff bought with money collected by American schoolchildren: pencils, notebooks, blackboards. Most of the Borei Keila children had theirs buried amidst the rubble during their eviction. Some of them now live with their parents in the market stalls located under the Phanimex buildings because they can at least still go to […]
See also: ‘The Quest’ for iPad: why?, ‘The Quest’ for iPad: the team. So how the heck am I going to condense these eleven years of work for ‘The Quest’ and that sizable amount of content (3,500 photographs directly related to evictions, at least 18 different evictions) into a digestible package? The fact that it […]