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 the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 4/12/2012: The 133Ha of Boeung Kak Lake, filled up with sand by a development company which, over the last 4 years, evicted 3000 of the 4000 families living around it.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 4/12/2012: The 133Ha of Boeung Kak Lake, filled up with sand by a development company which, over the last 4 years, evicted 3000 of the 4000 families living around it.
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, causing considerable trafic jams on Monivong Boulevard. The representatives managed to slip past and were then pushed back by riot police for about one hour before a delegation was finally allowed in the Council of Minister’s premises to deliver the petition.
The communities are: Boeung Kak Lake, Borei Keila, Group 347, Tropeang Anjan, Former Boeung Kak Lake residents, Railway community, Thmor Kul, A Piwat Thmey, Pret Tatoo, Boeung Chuk, Former Group 78, Village 14, and 8 communities in Russey Keo district…
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 5/12/2012: Representatives of 20 communities involved in various land issues in Phnom Penh gathered in front of the Council of Ministers to deliver a petition and were pushed back by police forces during one hour.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 5/12/2012: Tep Vanny, Boeung Kak Lake community representative and representatives of 20 communities involved in various land issues in Phnom Penh gathered in front of the Council of Ministers to deliver a petition and were pushed back by police forces for one hour.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 5/12/2012: Representatives of 20 communities involved in various land issues in Phnom Penh gathered in front of the Council of Ministers to deliver a petition and were pushed back by police forces during one hour.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 5/12/2012: Tep Vanny, Boeung Kak Lake representative and a delegation of the 20 communities involved in various land issues in Phnom Penh were authorised to deliver a petition at the Council of Ministers.
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…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Christian Caujolle, Curator, mounting the 5-year retrospective of Phnom Penh Photo, gathering new work of 75 photographers exhibited over the years.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Christian Caujolle, Curator, mounting the 5-year retrospective of Phnom Penh Photo, gathering new work of 75 photographers exhibited over the years.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Christian Caujolle, Curator, mounting the 5-year retrospective of Phnom Penh Photo, gathering new work of 75 photographers exhibited over the years.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Christian Caujolle, Curator, mounting the 5-year retrospective of Phnom Penh Photo, gathering new work of 75 photographers exhibited over the years.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Christian Caujolle, Curator, mounting the 5-year retrospective of Phnom Penh Photo, gathering new work of 75 photographers exhibited over the years.
Construction of the funeral pire for King Norodom Sihanouk’s cremation on February 4th is going making progress…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Construction of the funeral pire on the ‘Veal Meru’ in front of the National Museum for the cremation of King Norodom Sihanouk on the 51st day of his death.
Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, fighting to keep their land since 2008 (here and here), hearing Prime Minister Hun Sen saying at a land titles distribution ceremony that people with land issues should come to him, took him at his word and tried to march to ‘Peace Palace’. A police blockade prevented them from leaving their neighbourhood for about an hour. Some 40 members of the community trickled through the blockade by foot and reached the Prime Minister office. After pleading for yet another hour, five of them were finally allowed to enter the Council of Ministers and were promised a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Sok An.
This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ story which is available as an iApp on iTunes.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, entangled in a land issue since 2008 are prevented by the police to leave their neigbourhood when trying to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Tep Vanny, community representative, here photographed by police, and Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, entangled in a land issue since 2008 are prevented by the police to leave their neigbourhood when trying to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, entangled in a land issue since 2008 are prevented by the police to leave their neigbourhood when trying to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, under threat of an eviction since 2008 managed to get past a first police blockade arrive in front of the ‘Peace Palace’ and request to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 3/12/2012: Boeung Kak Lake inhabitants, under threat of an eviction since 2008 managed to get past a first police blockade arrive in front of the ‘Peace Palace’ and request to deliver a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen who said a few days earlier people with land issues should refer to him.
The ‘Development Landscapes’ set which you can visit here on my website, has a few more recent photographs. ‘Development Landscapes’ brings together pictures from places people were evicted from over the past ten years in Phnom Penh. The story is part of the ‘Quest for Land’ application for the iPad you can purchase (for 8.99$) by clicking here.
The iApp contains more than 700 pictures and over 20000 words of text by Robert Carmichael…
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1/12/2012: Construction sites on Koh Pich Island where 300 farmer families, providing much of Phnom Penh’s vegetables, were evicted from between 2002 and 2005.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1/12/2012: Construction site where the inhabitants of Group 78 were evicted from in July 2009.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1/12/2012: Construction sites on Koh Pich Island where 300 farmer families, providing much of Phnom Penh’s vegetables, were evicted from between 2002 and 2005.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1/12/2012: Construction sites on Koh Pich Island where 300 farmer families, providing much of Phnom Penh’s vegetables, were evicted from between 2002 and 2005.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1/12/2012: Construction sites on Koh Pich Island where 300 farmer families, providing much of Phnom Penh’s vegetables, were evicted from between 2002 and 2005.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1/12/2012: Rubbish on Koh Pich Island where 300 farmer families, providing much of Phnom Penh’s vegetables, were evicted from between 2002 and 2005.
On this World Aids Day, I gathered a set of photographs related to HIV/AIDS taken over the years in Cambodia and bundled them in a story on my website at this URL.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 11/11/2008: Promotion of HIV/ AIDS prevention by volunteers during Water Festival.
Holidays are tough. Can’t resist taking photographs…
CAMBODIA. Kep. 27/11/2012: ‘Ting Mong’, dancing spirits, entertaining worshippers to raise money at a ‘Kathen’, a buddhist ceremony where people bring new buddha statues (and money) to the pagoda.
CAMBODIA. Kep. 27/11/2012: Worshippers carrying offerings at a ‘Kathen’, a buddhist ceremony where people bring new buddha statues (and money) to the pagoda.
CAMBODIA. Kep. 27/11/2012: Worshippers waiting for the end of a ceremony during a ‘Kathen’, a buddhist ceremony where people bring new buddha statues (and money) to the pagoda.