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 [...]
‘Royal Silence’ is an e-book for the iPad with 185 photographs by John Vink about King Norodom Sihanouk’s passing away in October last year, marking the end of an era for the Cambodians. It contains photographs of the King upon his return from exile in 1991, as well as from the massive crowds grieving the [...]
A first rehearsal for the ceremonies which will take place for the cremation of King Norodom Sihanouk (see here for the tribute paid by the public to the King after his death last October) was organised today in front of the Royal Palace and the nearly completed 1.2 million dollar funeral pyre building. Kong Sam [...]
There are some projects brooding with Robert Delpire and Michel Christolhomme. But no dates set…
For the ranters, the disillusioned, the nostalgic, the cynics, the pretenders, the owners of scarves and Leica M’s: http://www.emphas.is/home.html And please have a nice day…
For those who twitter and want to know about the situation in Bangkok: Kosuke Okahara: Agnes Dherbeys: Andrew Marshall: Terry Frederickson: Roland Neveu: And do try and check out Agnes Dherbeys’, Kosuke Okahara’s and Nick Nostitz’s pics
More than twenty years ago I photographed Sam Sathya at the classical dance section of the Fine Arts school. Today, with three dancers from the new generation, she is rehearsing Khmeropédies, a choreography by Emmanuèle Phuon. They will perform in Hong Kong next week and in New York this summer. I highly recommend that you [...]
I stumbled upon this link from the INA.fr website about an interview Ronny Brauman, former head of MSF, and I gave back in 1994 on the occasion of the opening of my exhibition on refugees at the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, curated by Robert Delpire. The book Réfugiés in the Photo Notes [...]
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