A night of slideshows, multimedia presentations and web documentaries by Cambodia photography agency Asia Motion will feature images from MAG's work in the country.
Event: Asia Motion One year anniversary [Facebook page]
Venue: Equinox Cafe, #3A street 278, Phnom Penh
Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, from 8pm
"The slideshows about MAG's work in Cambodia not only show the skilful job of the deminers," says photographer Nick Alexrod, who visited the programme earlier this year, "but also the long-term benefits that the landmine clearance has brought to the communities.
"At a local pagoda we visited, monks were planting a garden, and the elderly head monk pointed to the garden and said 'they (MAG) found a lot of mines there'.
"Seeing families feeling safe to use their land and communities building schools, and improving roads, really pointed out to me that clearing land changing lives. Not only for this generation, but for the generations to come.”
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Touch Nich (9), Sam Ny (18), Logn Sav (10) do the laundry around the well near their home in Pailin, Cambodia. Their family's land was cleared by MAG. |
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Touch Sambath clears land in Ou Sampor Cheung minefield, Banteay Meanchey Province. |
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Workers load trucks with corn in Ou Chamlong Village, Pursat province. Parts of the surrounding areas were cleared by MAG to make way for agriculture. |
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Children play in a pond near the Ou Sampor Cheung minefield in Banteay Meanchey Province. Top: Veal Primary School in Pursat province, Cambodia. The land was cleared by MAG in 2007. [Photos: Nick Axelrod] |
