The 21 factory workers, activists and union leaders who were arrested in Phnom Penh on January 2nd and 3rd during the violent crackdown on worker’s demonstrations for higher wages which resulted in 4 deaths by bullets (a 5th worker was seen wounded but disappeared and is presumed dead) is going on at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court this morning.
A full story on the garment sector in Cambodia over the past years can be found in ‘A Fine Thread’ for the iPad. With over 500 photographs and an in-depth text by Robert Carmichael it is yours for $US4.99. You can download it HERE
A few of the photographs from ‘A Fine Thread’:
Off to Brugge, to bring 45 vintage prints to 44Gallery where they will be exhibited starting May 4th… The prints will be for sale. There are only 1 or 2 copies of those prints around, handmade some 30 years ago in my darkroom.
It is also some 30 years I haven’t been to Brugge. Hasn’t changed that much. But then Brugge hasn’t changed a lot since 600 years. That’s why it is trampled by thousands of tourists.
More on ‘This is not Belgium’ HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, or HERE…
Hopefully there will be some time for me to work a bit more on ‘This Is Not Belgium’ during my stay there.
For more see HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, or HERE…
A never seen before crowd ran over Kep during Khmer New Year, putting a very high pressure on the crab population this usually quiet little sea resort is famous for.
More on Kep HERE…
Posted Wednesday Apr 16, 2014, in
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At 8:07 AM this morning the Thevada for the Khmer New Year was welcomed by the Cambodians. He was presented offerings at the doorsteps, rich and poor alike. Negotiations between the old Thevada and the new one will go on for the next couple of days before the old year vanishes and the new one starts for real. Time for a change…
A happy Khmer New Year to all…
Posted Monday Apr 14, 2014, in
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I keep documenting changes in landscapes of areas people were evicted from. Here are the latest additions to that story on my website.
Does anyone with a witty pen and an interest in urbanism feel like writing a text for this body of work? If so shoot me an email, I’ll explain more…
Press conference with CNRP co-president Sam Rainsy at the party headquarters in Chak Angré: an exercise in variation for the photographer…
So the opposition CNRP will not go to the Royal Palace tomorrow, on the eve of the Khmer New Year festivities, to tell King Sihamoni they agree to finally, after several months of boycott, join the National Assembly. First because Kem Sokha, one of the CNRP co-presidents, is not in Cambodia but mainly because there remains one sticky point in the agreement to be concluded with the ruling CPP: the dates for the anticipated elections.
Posted Thursday Apr 10, 2014, in
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I updated the story I did on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in Bangladesh back in 1992 with new scans and never before edited photographs.
The full story on my website can be found HERE.
Posted Thursday Apr 10, 2014, in
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