Archive for July, 2010

Cambodia trial verdict

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

16000 deaths,19 years in jail – fury greets sentence for Pol Pot’s executioner

This was the headline in today’s Independent – 27 July.

The court ruled that the former maths teacher who had overseen the Tuol Sleng interrrogation centre  should be sentenced to 35 years in jail, reduced to 18 years 10 months after consideration of time already served.

Alongside the report of the trial verdict is a piece by Nic Dunlop who tracked down comrade Duch in 1999.It is a balanced article. He comments that the trial became an examination of how human beings behave in times of great extremity, and he  asks the question;What would we have done in his shoes?….

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Sets

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

I’ve decided to keep work in progress to myself.I’ll remove it bit by bit.The blog hasn’t generated any dialogue with one notable exception, and the work itself has far to go.

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Galleries

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Putting a gallery together has its own logic. It’s what I call  Blakemore sequencing.( I hope John won’t mind this cryptic  reference to his very formative portfolio workshop in Glasgow.) The 3×3 or 3×4 + format often requires the reworking of an image, or reloading of the whole set to get the right balance.

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