Mam Sonando, Director of the independent Beehive Radio station, condemned to 20 years of imprisonment for masterminding a so-called ‘secessionist movement’, saw his request for bail rejected by the judge on the following grounds: risk of disturbance of public order, possession of double nationality and possibility of influencing witnesses. A crowd of some 200 supporters […]
The projection of ‘Intersection’, sponsored by the E.U., took place on the rooftop of the Faculty of Fine Arts exhibition hall in Phnom Penh. Christian Caujolle, curator of the PPPhoto festival, pairs a Khmer and and a foreign photographer to work on a common theme for three days. The theme was ‘5’, for the fifth […]
Yesterday night was the first time a projection with about 50 photographs from ‘Quest for Land’ was shown in a Cambodian public venue: the Royal University of Phnom Penh, accompanied by the Ponleu Selapak musicians. And guess what? There was no riot… Thank you PPhoto and Christian Caujolle for your ignorance of self-censorship. Tonight the […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community (here and here) was of course not going to sit still and was hoping to celebrate International Human Rights Day in a normal fashion. They planned to exercise their freedom of movement right but were prevented from doing so by numerous police forces. This is a follow-up post on the […]
The Phnom Penh Photo festival is under way. It is the 5th edition, curated by Christian Caujolle. Photography exhibitions in many places (Georges Rousse, Binh Dang, Vandy Rattana, Wang Lin are the ones who I’ll remember for now… haven’t seen everything yet), projections (I’ll have one on the funeral of King N. Sihanouk and one […]
Boeung Kak Lake (see here and here) still stands eerily empty since it was totally filled over a year ago by developmment company Shukaku Inc., evicting 3000 out of the 4000 families living on its edge in the process: 133 Ha of sand and dry grass, a few bushes. This is a follow-up post on […]
Following the Boeung Kak Lake (here and here) move of day before yesterday, and in an unprecedented show of gathered forces, representatives of 20 communities involved in land issues in the Phnom Penh area came together to deliver a petition at the Council of Ministers. All the access roads but one were blocked by police, […]
Christian Caujolle, Curator, is putting together the main exhibition of the Phnom Penh Photo festival, a 5-year retrospective, which is made of at least one recent work by each of the 75 photographers who were exhibited the previous years. Opening December 8…