Making Arts Accessible in Rural Areas of Cambodia
This article is the result of the research conducted by Tola SAY during the e-residency Virtual Crossovers, organised in April 2021 by ASEF and ENCACT, the European network for cultural management and policy. Tola worked closely with her mentors Carla Figueira and Musa Igrek to understand how arts can become more accessible to local communities in Cambodia. Here is what she discovered.
Chapei Master Kong Nai
Growing up in Pursat, in the western part of Cambodia, in the early 2000s, my daily life was accompanied by the songs of influential singers from the 1960s such as Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea, and Pen Ran. These songs continue having deep power and meaning for Cambodians like myself in the present – especially because so many farmers, scholars, and artists, including the ones mentioned, were killed during the Democratic Kampuchea regime (1975-1979) known globally as the Khmer Rouge.
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Photos of Khmer Rouge victims at Tuol Sleng Genocidal Museum are colourised and altered to show them smiling. Facebook
VICE Asia removes article with altered S21 photos, issues apology
Mon, 19 April 2021
VICE Asia has removed an article featuring Irish photographer Matt Loughrey from its website and issued a letter of apology to the families of the victims of the Khmer Rouge and to the Cambodian people.
The article and interview with Loughrey was focused on his colourised versions of the black and white photos of Khmer Rouge victims at the Tuol Sleng Genocidal Museum that he used in a project titled “These People Were Arrested by the Khmer Rouge and Never Seen Again”.
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Colourising old photos is a falsification of history Matt Loughrey has falsely doctored photos from 1970s Cambodia – but all colourisation does that
about 2 hours ago Emily Mark FitzGerald
A motorbike drives past the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 prison) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 12 April 2021. Cambodian authorities called on US media group Vice and Irish artist Matt Loughrey to withdraw an article featured altered images of Khmer Rouge victims. The article was later removed from the Vice website. EPA/KITH SEREY
It’s not often that photo colourisation sparks an international incident, but this is precisely what’s occurred over the past few days, owing to a controversy that’s erupted over the online publication by Vice of doctored photographs of the 1970s Cambodian genocide, produced by the Mayo-based colourist Matt Loughrey.