The faces follow you through the rooms. Some are terrified, some eager to please, others too distorted by beatings to look at the camera. The boys portrait, in which the bars and the prison walls of S-21 are reflecting in his face, is one of the hundreds of prisoners who have been killed in the detention Centre under the Khmer Rouge regime. It is part of my project Shaded Memories, an associative introspective photographical project, seeking to document the traces of Cambodia’s darkest moments of history between 1975 to 1979, while this country was under the dictatorship of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The project visually reflects 40 years after the genocide, the violence which has taken place in the country showing fragments tracing the atrocities.
