The death of a woman in a refugee camp
A Cambodian woman displaced by the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia died at a refugee camp due to the harsh conditions of camp life. The Khmer people, who throughout history have endured the tragedies of war, were once again engulfed by the conflict and stripped of their daily lives.
About Artist
Satoshi Takahashi
Satoshi Takahashi is a Japanese photojournalist. He was born in 1981 in Akita, Japan. He studied photography at Japan University College of Art Department of Photography. Satoshi began his career as a freelance photojournalist in Cambodia since 2007. He had spent 11 years in the country covering social issues. In October 2018, Satoshi went back to Japan and currently he has been focusing on documenting stories of vanishing cultures in Akita prefecture concurrently with covering Cambodia. His photos have been published in newspapers, magazines around the world. In March 2019, Satoshi won the Domon Ken Award, one of Japan's most prestigious prizes for documentary photography, for his latest photobook, The Indomitable Spirit of Cambodian Resistance. Compiling works photographed in Cambodia between 2013 and 2018, the book documents social movements resisting the authoritarian regime. It has been selected for the permanent collection of the Ken Domon Museum of Photography. In addition, the book received several international photography awards, including The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3), International Photography Awards (IPA) and Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA).
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