Tuol Sleng in Cambodian language means "the hill of the poisonous tree" but today it is, in the town of Phonm Penh, the name of the cambodian genocide museum.
The building was the site of a High School and was transformed into a place of imprisonment and torture during the communist regime of Khmer Rouge. From 1975 to 1979 at Tuol Sleng were imprisoned about 17,000 people and many of them did not survive the torture inflicted.
Within the walls of '' Safety Office 21 ", the name by which the Khmer Rouge regime called the
school, the faces of the victims appearing in photographs in which some regime anonymous photographers cataloged the deaths and torture of prisoners.
My photos are the result of shots taken in multi-exposure on the faces of who lived within those walls his own end.
Photographs taken in the multi exposure during shooting - single raw files per image -
The building was the site of a High School and was transformed into a place of imprisonment and torture during the communist regime of Khmer Rouge. From 1975 to 1979 at Tuol Sleng were imprisoned about 17,000 people and many of them did not survive the torture inflicted.
Within the walls of '' Safety Office 21 ", the name by which the Khmer Rouge regime called the
school, the faces of the victims appearing in photographs in which some regime anonymous photographers cataloged the deaths and torture of prisoners.
My photos are the result of shots taken in multi-exposure on the faces of who lived within those walls his own end.
Photographs taken in the multi exposure during shooting - single raw files per image -
August 15, 1975 was inaugurated the Security Prison 21(S-21), on October 5 of that year it began to receive the first wave of prisoners.
The prison had a very hard regulation and to the prisoners who tried to disobey were inflicted severe punishment.
From 1975 to 1979 at Tuol Sleng were imprisoned about 17,000 people, but the real number remains unknown.
Often the families of the prisoners were kidnapped, interrogated and later eliminated in the killing fields of Choeung Ek .
Even if the charge was of spying, some of these men were considered potential perpetrators of a conspiracy against Pol Pot.
The accounting system was double, first outgoing from Tuol Sleng and second Choeung Ek to an incoming, to make sure that all the prisoners were executed.
The periods of internment were three and involved soldiers from the deposed regime of Lon Nol, intellectuals and finally the counterrevolutionaries.
Even if the great majority of victims had Cambodian origin, there were many foreign prisoners.
Once at the jail and already condemned to death, prisoners were photographed and they were asked a detailed biographical account.
In 1979 the prison was discovered during the invasion of the Vietnamese army. In 1980 he was converted into a museum.
