Magnum in Motion just made a multimedia essay I produced about the Khmer Rouge trial, called “30 Years for a Trial”, available on its website.
Also downloadable via iTunes, Zune.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 4/03/2002: Tuol Sleng Genocide museum situated in school turned into S21 interrogation center by the Khmer Rouge. Cell numbers.
There have been a little more than 300 downloads of the The Quest dummy since it went public on January 7th. Thanks, keep’em coming and spread the word…
The Dey Krohom site is still empty except for a line of chemical toilets. One year after the eviction…The place some of them were evicted to is now also empty. They are baking in Oudong…
Hide them, push them away. That way you don’t have to deal with them…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 7/01/2010: The site of Dey Krohom, one year after the eviction.
CAMBODIA. Damnak Trayoung (Phnom Penh). 8/01/2010: Site where the people evicted from Dey Krohom were evicted a second time after one year.
CAMBODIA. Damnak Trayoung (Phnom Penh). 8/01/2010: Site where the people evicted from Dey Krohom were evicted a second time after one year.
It is a story I have been working on more or less constantly over the last 9 years: land issues in Cambodia. The National Assembly here in Cambodia just discussed a law making evictions for development purposes legal. That is how they solved the problem…
So now is a good time to introduce you to the dummy of the book.
Here is THE QUEST FOR LAND.
Feel free to download it onto your harddisk (don’t read it through your web browser). It is a 37Mb file, so I apologize to those who don’t have a decent broadband connection.
I am looking for a publisher for this baby.
CAMBODIA. Rokakok. 3/01/2001: Inhabitants evicted from the Bassac slum to build a promenade along the river just arrived at new village of Rokakok.
I just added a new story on my website about Phnom Penh teenagers.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 15/08/2009: Trendy hairdresser.
Enjoy the rejuvenation process…
I updated my website with a small story on Kep-by-the-Sea to help those in the snow (and who don’t like it) to get through their ordeal…
Melt down here…
CAMBODIA. Kep (Kep). 28/10/2007: Fishing.
This is the very first picture I took this new year. Quite dusty. And only interesting when knowing we had a flat tyre and a flat battery 10 minutes later…
CAMBODIA. Aung Tasom (Takeo). 1/01/2010: New road to Kampot.
May 2010 be a winner for all of you (without the hand of God).
MEXICO. Mexico DF. 29/06/1986. Mundial 1986. Diego Maradona celebrating Argentina victory of World Cup at Azteca stadium, obtained with a controversial goal (called "the hand of God").
More pictures of the Mundial here…
This will probably be the first picture of the land issues in Cambodia book dummy I am working on since a couple of weeks. Hopefully you can download it next year (and that is not too long to wait is it).
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 30/04/2002: King Norodom Sihanouk receiving message from crowd after Ploughing Ceremony in front of National Museum.