Sincere congratulations to the winners of the World Press Photo. The Olympic Games for photographers? Pierre de Coubertin said ‘The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle, the essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.’ So here is one of the contributions I sent to ‘our’ […]
The dancers from ‘Amrita Performing Arts‘ are rehearsing ‘Khmeropédies III’, a choreography by Emmanuèle Phuon (see previous takes on this here and here) in view of 3 representations they will give at the Guggenheim Museum in New York later this year. (The Sony RX1 is really struggling for this kind of work. The AF definitely […]
Here are a few more photographs in the series ‘Development Landscapes’, showing the state of places where people were evicted from. The whole series, combined with landscape photographs of sites in the process of being evicted, will be featured in one of the ‘Mono’ e-books I am preparing for the iPad. There is a presentation […]
The moon is back… We have entered the Year of the Snake (see here)… The lions were stuffed with eggs and pig meat…
The ‘Veal Meru’ or cremation site (see the previous days here), is now open to the public. All the public. Not only the Cambodians. A good opportunity to sell the remaining stock of photographs of King Norodom Sihanouk or unrelated balloons. And also to knock on what looks like a solid construction and find out […]
The Year of the Snake is coming. The Chinese owners of big shops in central Phnom Penh invite the lion dancers to perform for good luck (also see here for the previous years). Yes, the Sony RX1 can shoot in colour. And does it pretty well.
So… May his ashes rest in peace after a turbulent life. With a final procession the remains of King Norodom Sihanouk (see here and here) were carried from the ‘Veal Meru’, or cremation ground, to the Royal Palace, accompanied by his son King Norodom Sihamoni and his wife Queen Mother Monineath. We will now see […]
It turned out to be an in-between-day. I thought the remaining ashes from late King Norodom Sihanouk (see here or here) were going to be transported from the ‘Veal Meru’ or cremation site, to the Royal Palace this morning. But no. It will be tomorrow morning. There is already a slight feeling of ‘it is […]