Moments 2nd edition

The second issue of the SEA/Collectiv 2-monthly PDF-magazine contains parts of new series by Me (Janos Kis), Eric de Vries, Steve Goodman, Geoff Croll, Richard Reitman and Dave Perkes. In MOMENTS you’ll also find a new item called ONE SUBJECT 6 VISIONS, news on our upcoming group-exhibition this summer in Phnom Penh and more, more… You can download the free PDF (28 pages – 6.6 MB) Click

SACRED .... and the nuns life exhibition opening

It was a great exhibition opening ceremony on 7th of April at Ketseraram Pagoda. Unfortunately my fellow photographer Jeff couldn't join personally. Many monks were praying together with nuns for the success of our exhibition and the health of the Little Nun's. Thanks for Eric de Vries Siem Reap based Dutch photographer for the excellent photos. Hope the visitors will understand the importance of our mission not only aprechiate our work. Thanks to all of the fabolous donors and supporters.

Khmer New Year 2010 Phnom Penh

I am just back from Phnom Penh where I shot these photos on assignment for the Tokyo based new PDF magazine "Latitude" about the Khmer New Year. It wasn't an easy issue because this time Cambodia's capital looked like a ghost town. The city was empty like in the ghost movie, except some key locations like pagodas, Royal Palace and nearby Wat Phnom. These times the city people visit the relatives in the countryside, so before and after new year the traffic goes crazy outside the town.

S-21 Requiem "Remember"

After a long time last week I visited the current Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide (former high school, Pol Pot's secret prison) again and I decided to photograph from different point of view. These photos are from the series of S-21 Requiem, which part of the "Remember" project. I took a picture of the original photos already taken by the prison photographers and relocated in a new environment (I mean digitally modified my original photos I took in the S-21). Emotionally was more difficult to create these dramatic images, than taking pictures in the "Museum" about the randomly chosen photos. I saw giggling Khmer students in front the photos of tortured prisoners. There are several picture sign outside on each building wall “Don’t Laugh". It was very strange for me, but now I understand why. There's a lots of thing to do for the Ministry of Education, the Community leaders, NGO’s, School directors, Teachers and Parents, etc... in this country.

Between 1975 -79 as many as 30.000 prisoners Khmer and foreigners were held, starved to death, tortured, or killed in S-21. The innocent girl name on the middle photo is Bophana. You can read more about her if you buy Elizabeth Becker's book "Love in the Time of the Khmer Rouge".

The mistake of US Army in August 6. 1973. Neak Loeung, Cambodia

I'm just back from Neak Loeung (Prey Veng) where August 6th 1973 American B-52 mistakenly dropped it's 20 ton load on a government-held Mekong river town. At least 137 Cambodians were killed and 268 wounded. No memorial monument and hardly can find people were living this town at that time and remember what's happend. What's happend with the wounded? Maybe the Khmer Rouge killed them or living somewhere else. I saw only one disabled, a landmine victime who injured in 1986. Neak Loeung is a place where there is a huge number of Vietnamese lives about 110km from the border.