Status changes at Magnum:
New members:
Jonas Bendiksen, Antoine D’Agata, Alec Soth
New nominees:
Olivia Arthur, Peter Van Agtmael
Champaign for all…
Today monday I will be on my way to Brussels (yes: Belgium) and unable to connect to the Internet for a few days… Means no updates on this weblog and quite some email backlog..
Sorry I’m late with updating this weblog.
It has been a bit hectic before leaving for Brussels next monday.
There was a portrait of a homosexual talking about what happened to him during the Khmer Rouge regime (story nr VIJ2008046), pictures in a village close to Phnom Penh where there is a concentration of copists producing painted reproductions of Angkor Wat by the square meter (story nr VIJ2008047), a two day trip by various (mostly uncomfortable) means of transportation to a place in the middle of nowhere where people are digging the soil to find gold and heavily polluting the environment by using chemicals (story nr VIJ2008048).
Most of these stories will be published on the Ka-set.info website IF… IF THE SERVER AT MAVEN was working properly. We have been without server for the last twelve hours and it is a disaster, jeopardising our carefully and painstakingly built visibility, ruining our referencing. At the Ka-set office in Phnom Penh we are dealing with daily power cuts, forcing us to work in the deafening noise of a generator (a common situation in the early 90’s but hey, this is the year 2008 in a booming economy!!!!). And if that was not enough now the server lets us down.
But enough complaining here is an image about people who lose much more than we do at Ka-set:
Phnom Penh. 6/06/2008: A group of community advocates has circulated a petition thanking Prime Minister Hun Sen for repeatedly warning those with power to stop taking land and other resources from the poor. Over 42000 names and thumbprints have been collected, a majority from people evicted from their land.
“The March of the Damned” (La Marche des Damnés) slideshow is published on the Ka-set website.
The same story is also featured on my website in the “latest” section
Sorry, was on the road for the last three days covering the march to Phnom Penh by people evicted from their land in Battambang (VIJ2008045). There should be a slide show on Ka-set this WE and an update on my website as well.
CAMBODIA. Angsah Chambak (Pursat). 28/05/2008: Families evicted from Battambang province staying at Arong Krouit pagoda on their way to Phnom Penh.
The wheelies were rolling in Hun Sen gardens this morning as part of the championship for wheelchair athletes organised by the CNVLD (Cambodian National Volleyball League Disabled). The crowds were thin (well… sunday morning at 7!!) but that didn’t prevent the athletes from pushing hard.
There is a slideshow on the Ka-set website here.
The sacred oxen have not touched the alcohol or the grass. They ate a lot of corn, a moderate amount of rice and some beans. According to the “Bakou” the Kingdom will fare well. Yet another Ploughing Ceremony (VIJ2008042) took place… Yet another rainy season will come…
There is a multimedia slideshow on the Ka-set website here…
The judges having reduced access even more for photographers to today’s first hearing at the Pretrial Chambers of the ECCC for IENG Tirith, Minister of Social Affairs during the Khmer Rouge Regime, all images from the tribunal entering History are more and more standardized. Only the feed provided by the tribunal itself will remain.
Judges are there to judge. Sure… In the case of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal they are also writing history by feeding our memories. Too bad they are not aware enough of the power of visual memory…
I updated my website with a new set of pictures in the Khmer Rouge Trial story here.