Roger Ballen, Lens Culture Conversation with Roger Ballen
“Many people over the years said my work is quite disturbing, quite dark. I always say, Well, I’m so pleased to hear that, what a great thing, this is what the doctor ordered for you. If one goes back to people like Jung, he called the dark side the shadow side, and he said very clearly — this was the side you had to open up, this was the side you had to explore. If you wanted to become a whole person, that’s what you had to go back to.”
Via Lens Culture. More Ballen.
Bokor Hill Station, Cambodia (via)
Bokor Hill Station is an abandoned French town in Preah Monivong National Park, located in northern Cambodia.
The town was built in 1921 as a resort by the colonial French settlers to offer an escape from the heat, humidity and general insalubrity of Phnom Penh. Nine hundred lives were lost in nine months during the construction of the resort in this remote mountain location. The centrepiece of the resort was the grand Bokor Palace Hotel & Casino, complemented by shops, a post office, a church and the Royal Apartments. It is also an important cultural site, showing how the colonial settlers spent their free time.
Bokor Hill was abandoned first by the French in late 1940s, during the First Indochina War, because of local insurrections guided by the Khmer Issarak, and then for good in 1972, as Khmer Rouge took over the area. During the Vietnamese invasion in 1979, Khmer Rouge entrenched themselves and held on tightly for months. In earlier 1990s Bokor Hill was still one of the last strongholds of Khmer Rouge.
Now abandoned, most of the buildings are still standing. The site is owned by the government but is under 99–year lease to the Sokimex Group who are undertaking to relay the road and redevelop the site, repairing the old hotel and casino along with new buildings.
Masterpiece…
Co, brudne amerykańce, nie wstyd wam, żeście takiego geniusza zamnęli?
U was, to by nawet Papież poszedł siedzieć.
What, dirty Yankees? Aren’t you shamed? You jailed genius. But in your fucked, dirty country even Pope wold be jailed. You are jealous, because your tiny, dirty directors are just little bitches, and Polański is real men, Polish, and Genius.
(via cool jay)
i love this tea
& my dad’s homemade nutrolls YUM
