In the series about development projects on land people were evicted from (check out ‘After the Eviction’ in the Eviction Galleries) … They are now also building a golf practice on Koh Pich. Until it is finished you can always take a piss…
The Boeung Kak saga continues. The water in the lake rises, the sand advances, the inhabitants are more and more anxious…
Boeung Kak lake has probably become the biggest beach in Cambodia. At the expense of some 4000 families. But I guess that’s not really of Shukaku Inc’s concern… But this beach is treacherous…
Picture nr 1 is from the Khmer refugees in Thailand story from 1989. Picture nr 2 is from the evictions series. It seems the Khmer are still not allowed to settle down…
The frozen clock is from the 108 Landscapes series.
After the ‘unrest’, back to the matching pictures series, taken 15 years (minimum) apart… The Cambodian tree drowned by development land could have been part of the story on Phnom Penh Development. It became part of the Evictions Gallery…
From the Water in Sahel story. I got the Eugene Smith award in 1986 for that story. My first and last award!
The first one is from the story Water in Sahel, but was never really used. The second is from Quest for Land…