Monday, May 16, 2011

High School Student Khmer Lady boys


Buddhist countries like Laos or Cambodia is not known for there lady-boys. Many trafficking stories continue in different brothels at different places. What is the future of the High School Student Khmer Lady boys? Are the young Khmer lady-boys will be or already targeted by "illegal" brothel owners and pips? These photos I took as a part of an unfinished project last year.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Hungarian man Sandor Kepiro war crimes trial






One of the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminals, Dr. Sandor Kepiro, 97 trial started in Budapest, Hungary. The former Hungarian police captain charged with taking part in January 1942 raids in the Serbia, Novi Sad. The Simon Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter, Israel Director Dr. Efraim Zuroff, discovered and exposed the former gendarmerie officer, who played an important role in the January 23, 1942 mass murder of at least some 1,250 civilians in the Serbian city of Novi Sad. Zuroff discovered Kepiro living in the Hungarian capital after almost half a century in exile in Argentina and has spearheaded the efforts to hold him accountable for his role in helping to organize a massacre of Jewish, Serb and Roma residents of the city of Novi Sad in January 1942. All the officers implicated in the massacre were put on trial in Budapest in late 1943 and convicted in early 1944, but following the Nazi invasion of Hungary, their sentences were cancelled and they were given promotions and returned to active service, without any of them being punished.

Source: Simon Wiesenthal Center

Photos I took at the court are available for publication upon request.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Two western journalists killed in Libya

Two of the world's most acclaimed war photographers, both based in Brooklyn, were killed in Libya on Wednesday. A mortar round had landed on the group of British and US photographers.

One of them Tim Hetherington, an Oscar-nominated British film director and war photographer.Vanity Fair, for which Hetherington was a contributing photographer, confirmed the death of the 41-year-old who covered numerous conflicts and won the 2007 World Press Photo Award for his coverage of US soldiers in Afghanistan.

Chris Hondros, also 41, suffered grave head injuries in the same mortar attack, said medics in the western port city, and died hours later from his wounds. Hondros, born in New York to Greek and German immigrant parents, had survived some of the world's worst conflicts of the last 20 years, including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Kashmir, the West Bank, Afghanistan and Iraq. His work in Liberia made him a Pulitzer finalist.

Hondros recently photographed the riots in Cairo's Tahir Square, barely escaping rocks and charging camels. He compared it to "slave revolts in the Pharonic times four thousand years ago."

Two other colleagues, Guy Martin, a freelance photographer working for Panos, and photographer Michael Brown, working for Corbis, were also wounded in the attack.