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Exhibited in the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh

1975-1979 there was the torture and execution prison S-21, where an estimated 20,000 people were killed.

When new prisoners arrived, the first step was to take their photograph. Most of these pictures were taken by Nhem En, a young boy born in 1959. He had been sent to China for a seven-month course in photography by the Khmer Rouge and became the chief of six photographers at Tuol Sleng.

"He had a job to do, and he did it supremely well, under threat of death, within earshot of screams of torture: methodically photographing Khmer Rouge prisoners and producing a haunting collection of mug shots that has become the visual symbol of Cambodia’s mass killings.

“I’m just a photographer; I don’t know anything,” he said he told the newly arrived prisoners as he removed their blindfolds and adjusted the angles of their heads. But he knew, as they did not, that every one of them would be killed." www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/world/asia/27cambo.html

www.tuolsleng.com/photographs.php

Taken on: December 15, 2005

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-LC33 (more info) (hide info)

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