PHNOM PENH, April 11 Cambodia called on US media group VICE to withdraw an article featuring newly colourised photos of the Khmer Rouge “killing fields” victims, saying the images were an insult to the dead because some mugshots had been altered to add smiles. At 1200 GMT today, the article.
Cambodia called on US media group VICE to withdraw an article featuring newly colourised photos of the Khmer Rouge 'killing fields' victims, saying the images were an insult to the dead because some mugshots had been altered to add smiles.
At 1200 GMT on Sunday, the article later was no longer available on the VICE.com website.
In the article published on Friday, artist Matt Loughrey said his project to colourise images from the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, or S-21, aimed to humanise the 14,000 Cambodians executed and tortured there.
PHNOM PENH, April 11 (Reuters) - Cambodia called on U.S. media group VICE to withdraw an article featuring newly colourised photos of the Khmer Rouge killing fields victims, saying the images were an insult to the dead because some mugshots had been altered to add smiles.
At 1200 GMT on Sunday, the article later was no longer available on the VICE.com website.
In the article published on Friday, artist Matt Loughrey said his project to colourise images from the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, or S-21, aimed to humanise the 14,000 Cambodians executed and tortured there.
However, the article caused a backlash on social media after comparisons with the original black-and-white photos showed that some subjects were smiling only in Loughrey s colour images. The VICE article did not contain the original images.