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Midwest Radio - Cambodia criticises Vice over images of Khmer Rouge victims altered by Mayo artist

Cambodia criticises Vice over images of Khmer Rouge victims altered by Mayo artist Published: Monday, 12 April 2021 07:27 Cambodian officials have condemned a Co Mayo artist for doctoring archive photos of Khmer Rouge genocide victims to show them smiling in prison. Vice News pulled Matt Loughrey s work off its site yesterday, later saying the article did not meet its editorial standards and publishing it was an error . Mr Loughrey claims he had moral reasons for adding the smiles, and the permission of victims relatives which the Cambodian Ministry of Culture says is not true. Dr Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, head of the School of Art History at UCD, says the altered images were in incredibly poor taste.

Vice Removes Doctored Photos of Smiling Genocide Victims

12 Apr 2021 Vice Media on Sunday removed an article featuring digitally altered photos of Cambodian genocide victims with smiles on their faces after complaints from the Cambodian government and a petition to demand an apology from the media organization. The article, originally posted on Friday, showcased the work of Irish digital artist Matt Loughrey, who said he wanted to humanize victims of the genocidal Khmer Rouge, a Communist insurgency supported by China that tortured and killed up to 2 million people in the late 1970s. Loughrey took black-and-white photos of prisoners from the infamous S-21 torture and execution camp, a facility that once served as a high school called Tuol Sleng”, and used software to both colorize them and alter some of their expressions. He added a few other embellishments to some of the photos, such as a bloody handprint on the wall behind one prisoner.

Doctored genocide photos condemned - Taipei Times

Doctored genocide photos condemned ‘INSULT’: An Irish artist’s project that digitally adds color and smiles to the black-and-white photos of victims of Pol Pot’s regime has drawn a backlash in Cambodia AFP, PHNOM PENH Cambodians who lost family during the Khmer Rouge genocide on Sunday slammed an Irish artist’s decision to digitally add smiles to old black-and-white pictures of victims killed by the regime. The Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge installed a reign of terror from 1975 to 1979 that left an estimated 2 million Cambodians dead from starvation, hard labor, torture and mass executions. The brutal regime took photographs of thousands of its victims including those sent to Tuol Sleng, or S-21 a former high school in Phnom Penh that was converted into a prison.

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