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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

PRASHANT PANJIAR

photographer | curator

THE SURVIVOURS – KAMPUCHEA 1984

In1984 I was assigned by Patriot newspaper to travel to Vietnam and Cambodia, then called Kampuchea, to cover the first ever Vietnamese troop withdrawal from Cambodia. I ended up spending almost a month in the two countries, most of the time in Cambodia. Though it had been 5 years since the Khmer Rouge regime had been overthrown, the scars of their savage social engineering project that resulted in a genocide that eliminated more than 2 million Cambodians was still very much evident everywhere. The resulting work, a portrait of a country recovering from years of genocide, led to my first photo exhibition “The Survivours: Kampuchea 1984” and a book with the same title published by Patriot.

Returning Vietnamese soldiers cross the Mekong river during the first troop withdrawals.

A road in the countryside.

A bus in the countryside.

A street in Phnom Penh.

A street in Phnom Penh.

A street in Phnom Penh.

Cigarette seller at a street corner in Phnom Penh.

A photo studio in Phnom Penh.

Two elederly men play a game of checkers in a shop in Phnom Penh.

Cells at S-21, the school that was converted to the dreaded Tuol Sleng Prison during the Khmer Rouge reign.

Photographs of victims of S-21, the school that was converted to the dreaded Tuol Sleng Prison during the Khmer Rouge reign.

Skulls of victims of the Khmer Rouge's genocide displayed at the Choeung Ek mass grave.

Ruins of the Preah Than pagoda in Phnom Penh destroyed by the Khmer Rouge in 1975.

Students of the fine arts school practise dance at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.

Children of the nine families that live in the ruins of the Preah Than pagoda complex in Phnom Penh.

Children of the Cham Muslim community at their mosque in Prek Pra village near Phnom Penh.

A Cham Muslim family in their home at Prek Pra village near Phnom Penh.

A traditional wedding ceremony in Phnom Penh.

Devotees walk to a pagoda during a Buddhist ceremony.

Transplanting paddy.

A militiaman assists a bullock cart driver at Dong Russey village in Kompong Chnang province.

Militiamen at a checkpost play guitars.

A teenage girl from a local militia guards a bridge in the countryside.

A man with his horse cart.

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