JR in Cambodia

French visual artist "guerrilla artist" JR who exhibits freely in the streets of of the world visited Cambodia in 2009. as the part of the project "Inside Out". I took this photo in Phnom Penh just a view days later where hi displayed the portraits of evicted people. The government was quite fast to react and removed it within a week. In 2010 JR has been awarded TED Prize.

Two years earlier of this project, he traveled to Israel and did the same with the portraits of Israeli and Palestinian people on both sides of separation wall.

Putin in Israel

Vladimir Putin has won the 2012 Russian presidential election in Moscow yesterday. So, time to upload two of my photos to my blog, I took in 2008 and 2009 in Israel.

Putin pub is a popular place among Israeli Russians in Jerusalem downtown.

At the christian quarter of Old city of Jerusalem, there are several Israeli Arab stores selling T-shirts with picture of Jesus, Bush or Putin who wearing Arab headscarf "keffiyeh".

Journalist female was Sexually assaulted in Cairo

Hungarian female video journalist Eszter Cseke was sexually assaulted last week at Tahrir Square in Cairo. Thanks for her colleauge Andras Takacs and some brave Egyptian men, she managed to escape and left her attackers behind. Andras and Eszter received the 2011 youth media video journalist award.