Cambodia: Photographer documents rapid change
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Cambodia: Photographer documents rapid change
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... me=3201094Cambodia based photographer Nicolas Axelrod joined forces with award winning journalist Denise Hruby and creative consultant Fani Llaurado hoping to give an unique insight into the contradictions of modern-day Cambodia. Since moving to the capital Phnom Penh seven years ago, Axelrod has witnessed and documented a period of rapid change in the country that only 40 years ago was devastated by wars.
The team have collaborated to publish what could be the first photo book concerning the country's sweeping development, observing key aspects of the change such as family life, youth and politics, land rights and development, modernisation and the emerging middle class.
Transitioning Cambodia is currently being pre-sold through a crowd-funding campaign. In only ten days they have raised more than half of their initial goal, which will be mostly spent on printing 500 copies of the book. As well as the book and numbered prints, other perks that can be purchased include a silk scarf made in Cambodia, tours of Phnomm Penh and photography workshops. The campaign ends on Thursday February 26, 2015, but the publication will go ahead regardless. By Livia Bonadio (@liviabonadio)
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Re: Cambodia: Photographer documents rapid change
Good photographs - really. Does it document a rapid change ? Wouldn't say so. Yes, there is a rapid change in Cambodia - that's a natural thing, but these pictures actually just document stupidity and decadency.
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I liked the photos. I was expecting some sort of time lapse of phnom penh going from a Tombstone type frontier village to the city it is now, though. It seemed to be more of a retrospective of important shit that happened.
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Nice photographs, It might have been more revealing if the photographs had been taken in affected areas comparing then and now given one of the main changes driving other social changes is land/property. Then again he's a relative newbie at 7 years, and I've noticed in the capital at least a slow and creeping change over a longer period. Taking a picture of an office block and a slum, or rich and poor at the same point in time doesn't do it for me, it's the same everywhere.
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I guess the pics are a teaser for the book.
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These pictures touch my heart!
កុំស្លាប់ដូចពស់ កុំរស់ដូចកង្កែប
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Before and after pictures represent and show change. These pictures just show present and the present that they show seem to be mainly what happens after land grabs.
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