The opening of ‘Quest for Land’, the exhibition celebrating the 1st anniversary of the app for the iPad (available on iTunes here) is this wednesday at 6:00PM at Meta House on Sothearos Boulevard (Phnom Penh-Cambodia)… You are welcome… See also this…
One year ago ‘Quest for Land’, an App for the iPad, bundling 10 years of photographs about land issues in Cambodia was released. There will be an exhibition at Meta House, on Sothearos Boulevard (yes: in Phnom Penh) to celebrate. It is the first time these photographs will be featured in an exhibition in Cambodia. […]
That is basically what the story I will submit for the ‘7 Days in Myanmar‘ project will be about… The demise of the hill tribes, the ‘normalisation’ of ‘difference’, the difficult to stop cultural leveling of society… The opening up of Myanmar will for sure increase the speed of those changes.
The pieces of my Myanmar puzzle during the ‘7 Days in Myanmar‘ project are coming together. As usual it is a few random encounters which bring the nicest batch of sub-stories: talking to an Akha woman in the streets of Tachileik brings me to a funeral, talking to some streetkids under the bridge crossing the […]
I am back from long walks in the mountain and hooked up on a rickety WiFi in bordertown Tachileik. I have been thinking on how to link two very different places like Ksieng Tong and Tachileik, ethnic minorities and a town bordering Thailand. Having talked with a few Akha, Enn, Palaung and Wa, it seems, […]
The Khmer New year holidays are over, Tep Vanny, the Community Representative who was awarded the Global Leadership Award by the Vital Voices Foundation in Washington is back in Phnom Penh… So it is back to square one on the Boeung Kak Lake issue. The community felt misquoted by the (departing) Governor of Phnom Penh […]
The series is ongoing. So is the development on Koh Pich Island where many families were evicted from… See here for more…
Tep Vanny will be awarded the ‘Leadership in Public Life Award’ by ‘Vital Voices’ this April 2nd in Washington DC, in the presence, so I heard, of Vice President Joe Biden and former Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton. But if she was singled out for the award, most of the women of Boeung Kak Lake equally […]