S P A C E | 'A June Afternoon'

This issue is an essay, in the main, about my own personal experience visiting and sitting in the rooms of a famous, important, and much-talked about place in Cambodia. This was a visit to the Queen Mother Library, and its adjacent space, the Documentation Center of Cambodia. I got the opportunity to interview Executive Director Youk Chhang.

According to Chhang’s Wikipedia page,

‘Chhang is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s killing fields. He became DC-Cam’s leader in 1995, when the center was founded as a field office of Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program to conduct research, training and documentation relating to the Khmer Rouge regime.

'Chhang continued to run the center after its inception as an independent Cambodian non-governmental organization in 1997 and is currently building on DC-Cam’s work to establish the Sleuk Rith Institute, a permanent hub for genocide studies in Asia, based in Phnom Penh.'

For more information, see this post in context at Design Kompany:

https://designkompany.com/stories-of-survivors-of-the-khmer-rouge-documentation-center-of-cambodia-sifts-materials-to-curate-share/