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Sure looks like it… US soldiers used to call the place Pig Alley (Pigalle) right after the 40-45 war.

First time in a little more than 10 years I am in Brussels during late fall… It is rather tough… More on ‘This is not Belgium’ HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

It took me a while to get used to this little RX1. I am a viewfinder photographer and have been one for quite some time now (that would be since I started photographing as a kid). To change to an electronic viewfinder or looking like one of the millions of tourists in Cambodia frozen into […]

At 4:00pm there was still no news about the negotiations with the factory management which might bring the 4-month long strike to an end. See also HERE. UPDATE: A solution, brokered by the Ministry of Labour, for the conflict opposing the workers of he SL Garment Ltd. factory to their direction for the last 4 […]

On the Cambodian roads 1, 4, 5, 6 and 3, monks and members of civil society have been marching for the last two days. They will converge on Phnom Penh on December 10th to celebrate International Human Rights Day. Feel free to join. All photographs taken with the Sony RX1… P.S.: Unfortunately I will not […]

If you thought Yorm Bopha’s case would be over you’d better think twice. The land rights activist and Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience who was jailed on what human rights observers say were trumped up charges to punish her for her militantism, appeared in front of the Supreme Court this morning for her last appeal. […]

First the (unauthorised) commemoration of the 347 young souls who were crushed to death during a stampede on the Koh Pich bridge at the 2010 Water Festival (see part of the story HERE). It was organised by the opposition CNRP, one day ahead of the official (and obviously authorised) commemoration which will be held by […]

The strike by the workers from the SL Garment factory is in its 4th month. They walked the streets several times, they are without income, they sit for hours at the gates of their factory, they put up a blockade on the road, they were dispersed by the riot police, they were shot at with […]