Surfaces & Strategies Oral Presentation

mickyates Aftermath, Cambodia, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Documentary, Environmental, Genocide, Ideas, Movies, Oral Presentation, Photography, Project Development, SSWeek12, Stories, SurfacesStrategies 3 Comments

 I am exploring the long-term impact of the Khmer Rouge Genocide, and especially its impact on education. This includes revisiting our family history with that country and its people. Rather than creating a documentary about that Genocide, I see it as contextfor the real focus of my project, which is capturing and making public the unfinished stories from Cambodians, …

Time, Education & Rephotography

mickyates Cambodia, ContextualResearch, Coursework, Critical Research Journal, Education, History, Ideas, Narrative, Photography, Project Development, Rephotography, SSWeek10, SurfacesStrategies 3 Comments

I am examining the ‘time‘ aspect of my narrative, amongst other things. In an earlier post, I noted that a young boy that started in a grass-roofed school near Trapeang Prasat is now doing a PhD in Law, at Nagoya University, Japan. We first visited that school in 2000. My wife and I subsequently funded a five room structure, with …