Martyn Aim's background is as an anthropologist. He has an MA Visual Anthropology, with training in documentary film and photography, and an MPhil in Social Anthropology, specialising in conflict and human rights. As an ethnographer, he spent a year documenting the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations peoples of western Canada, living in isolated reserve communities. Martyn now works as a freelance photojournalist and won a scholarship to attend the Foundry Photo Workshop 09' in India. He is available for editorial and NGO assignments.
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Cambodia: Darkness Falls
By Martyn Aim
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 28 January 2010
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Tuol Sleng (S-21) Prison was created by order of the Khmer Rouge chief, Pol Pot on April 17th, 1975. The former Toul Svay High School classrooms were turned into interrogation rooms and cells 0.8 by 2 metres square.
S-21 was designed for detention, interrogation and torture. Once prisoners’ confessions were received and documented they were sent [...]