The Boeung Kak Lake community, joined by those evicted from Borei Keila, were out in the streets again. This time to obtain the liberation of Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony. They managed to obtain a short talk with Mr. Phay Siphan, Council of Minister’s Spokesperson outside of the ministry’s premises… And if you think these […]
The Boeung Kak Lake community today protested the previous day’s arrest of Yorm Bopha in front of the Municipal Courthouse. They joined about 80 people from the Borei Keila community (violently evicted at the beginning of January) who were protesting the trial of one of their members. The Cambodian judicial system is frequently used as […]
Boeung Kak Lake community members Yorm Bopha and her husband were arrested by plainclothes policemen when on their way to the local administration where they were requested to answer some questions (if I understood well…). An hour later some 20 members of the community went looking for them, ending up demonstrating at the Municipal Police […]
Olivier Laurent talks about Instagram and the ‘new economics’ in the British Journal of Photography… and also uses the following picture I took on a TV set with my old iPhone…
There is a long interview about ‘Quest for Land‘, land issues in Cambodia on the iPad, in Eric Kim’s ‘Street Photography‘ blog.
The Boeung Kak Lake community is as vocal as ever. Evictions, destructions, threats, intimidations, lawsuits, prison: they went through it all and they go on protesting. They know they still have rights and they use them. About 50 of them marched this morning to the City Hall building to discuss the 12,44 ha for an […]
‘Development Landscapes‘ pictures places people were evicted from and is one of the 20 chapters dealing with land issues in Cambodia you can find on the ‘Quest for Land’ application for the iPad, available on iTunes. The following photographs are a follow-up on that story.
Checking in, being frisked, waiting, boarding, sitting 13 hours and waiting 13 hours for the sleep to come, disembarking, immigration, luggage, taxi, being confronted with sluggish Internet at home… I’m back in Phnom Penh… Weird feeling of loss and of steps without return…