These People Were Arrested by the Khmer Rouge and Never Seen Again

Post by **Freightdog** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:48 pm

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:29 pm In my opinion, even putting these sort of photos in colour is questionable. These are photos of victims of the Pol Pot regime. You can't make them "pretty" or more human. As for the smiles, well, I'm lost. Why would you do that ?

A lack of empathy, propriety. Tasteless. A lack of art, even? Then, Peddling a process that could be beneficial in the right context, and making it an industrial process.

These photos are a catalogue of someone’s depravity inflicted on others. Jollying them up serves to trivialise the events that they catalogue, and is a disservice to the victims.

Big Daikon · Post by **Big Daikon** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:51 pm

ergosemper wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 4:01 pm He should be sanctioned for his twisted and depraved "creativity".

(Sighs)

siliconlife · Post by **siliconlife** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:53 pm

If there is any redeemable idea behind it all, it's that the "artist" wanted the people to be remembered as if they were smiling, a kind of "what could have been" retrospective. However, the "artist" fails to mention anything of substance pertinent to the "art" itself beyond his career. And even he if he had, it would have little worth beyond the realm of self-driven social media perspectives of the world. I don't like throwing around bandwagon terms people use these days (eg. "snowflake", "virtue signaling") but I'm gonna throw one down on this: "toxic positivity". Reminds of some of the silly shit people say like "happiness is a choice" etc. Life is not all about smiles.

Post by **Freightdog** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:58 pm

The Vice link now goes to 404. I think the message is being felt.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:05 pm

Has anyone seen any sort of explanation by the "artist" on why he thought is was a good idea to photoshop genocide victims ?

For the moment, there doesn't seem to be any sort of excuse for this, except that the man is clueless. He just marched in there with his big old boots without a thought about what he was trying to achieve, and what impact that would have on other people.

There was another scandal not so long ago, of someone using photos from S21 for something inappropriate, but I don't recall exactly what it was ?

Big Daikon · Post by **Big Daikon** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:21 pm

Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:58 pm The Vice link now goes to 404. I think the message is being felt.

That's fine. Vice blows.

Cricket99 · Post by **Cricket99** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:29 pm

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:05 pm There was another scandal not so long ago, of someone using photos from S21 for something inappropriate, but I don't recall exactly what it was ?

Think it was stock images.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 7:10 pm

Cricket99 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:29 pm
Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:05 pm There was another scandal not so long ago, of someone using photos from S21 for something inappropriate, but I don't recall exactly what it was ?
Think it was stock images.

You're right.
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siliconlife · Post by **siliconlife** » Sun Apr 11, 2021 7:17 pm

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:21 pm
Freightdog wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:58 pm The Vice link now goes to 404. I think the message is being felt.
That's fine. Vice blows.

Scarpering out with your tail between your legs acting like something didn't happen isn't fine. Never was.

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