I’ve yet to write successfully about Cambodia, a subject which extends far beyond the country’s horrors but never, for me at least, out of their sight. Here’s my latest attempt, with the photograph, from our visit to Tuol Sleng in July, that prompted it. The former high school’s first floor is filled, room after room [...]
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June 5, 2008
Catching up to photos
Phnom Penh is a chaotic, often surreal place, a fever dream of toil and turmoil, weariness and illusions, of grabbing uncertainly but desperately for strands of a more certain future always on the brink of vanishing, a place where forgetting collides with remembering. To me, it seethes today with striving and daily struggle, is a place tearing itself from the [...]
