Slum families survived the fire but not the eviction

I just saw Carolyn O' Neill's photos about the burned shack houses at the riverside in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Very sad news, because this people had lost everything they earned in the past. Most of the families were living here almost for 20 years. Sometime three generation lived together and many of them were running small businesses in the house. At the beginning of 2010 I started to document the life of these slum families. I hired a local monk whom I knew well to join to my project as a fixer. By his help I got access to visit the shack houses inside and take some photo. These days the local government announced to beautify the city and evict hundreds of families living in shack houses at the riverbank. It looks they were lucky survived the force eviction until now. By the Phnom Penh Post article, the fire were caused by an electricity fault in a spirit house then it spread to a gas container. Today the Siem Reap based fellow photographer Eric De Vries dropped me a line that the reconstruction of stilt houses had started. Fortunately no one injured in this tragic fire.

Just a note: my pofile picture was taken inside one of the slum house in 2010

Whether you are in the area or elsewhere and heard about a charity to help these people, do not hesitate to contact me. I offer some of my photo for sell on an exhibition or joint charity event to help the slum community.

click here to read the Phnom Phen Post report

Gaddafi at the Embassy of Libya in Budapest

Outside the Embassy of Libya in Budapest, collection of old photographs populates the country on the building's fence in glass display. Libya - The Real Thing .... this text can be seen at the middle, down on display. What's new or the news you could ask? Somebody stuck a photo to the glass. Actually a heavily photoshopped (image manipulated) picture. ... and what's the subject? The lion haired Muamar Gaddafi and his "sons ?, plus maybe the members of his cabinet?" (I'm not sure)... posing as the national football team in an Israeli stadium and they all wear the Jewish symbol (David Cross) of the left side of their shirt. Behind the team, people waving Israeli flags. Other image shows Gaddafi's like the ghost soldier of death, wears his uniform among skulls. ... and the English translation of Merveilles et reves, text below the photo is Wonders and dreams.

Whether how long the Ambassador or the Consul of Libyan Embassy want to keep the photo stuck and dedicate the victory over the Gaddafi regime and his link with Israel?

Maybe we should asks Gaddafi's Hungarian wife Safia Farkash (nee Zsofia Farkas) whos grandfather Janos worked as a school inspector in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Is it only rumor or true, that Gaddafis' mother was a Jewish woman who converted to Islam at the age of 9 or the daughter of a Jewish woman who left her husband for and Arab Sheikh? The answer is maybe...

Remember when this year May 19, the Hungarian Ambassador to Libya coordinated the effort to rescuing the journalists; one British, one Spanish and two American.

Winner of 1969 Golden Ball Award died

I took these photos today about Florian Albert farewell honor at the Albert Stadium in Budapest. Besides the family and collegues, many football fans gathered for the event and payed their respects at the Football Ceazar’s coffin as well as outside the stadium. There were fans from other teams (clubs) too.

Florian Albert, who has died at aged 70, was elected European Footballer of the year in 1967 and was the last of the great pleayers to emerge from Hungary during its golden era.

Albert was the winner of the Golden Ball Award and the former sticker of Ferencvaros TC (Fradi). He’s took part of the 1962 and 1966 World Cup and won a bronz medal at the 1960 olympic Games. Following his retirement beeing involved in managerial carrier in Lybia by Al Ahly Benghazi.