The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh and the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center are teaming up to present a special photographic exhibition “A Reporter’s Dangerous Guided Tour through Democratic Kampuchea” by journalist Elizabeth Becker.
The official opening of the exhibit will take place on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. at the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh – #64, Street 200 (Okhnia Men).
Earlier that same day at the Bophana Center beginning at 3:00 p.m., Ms. Becker will be available to answer questions from the press about the exhibit.
This exhibit, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, features photographs and interviews from Elizabeth Becker’s trip to Cambodia in December 1978.
Elizabeth Becker, Image: phnompenhpost.com
Elizabeth Becker, former New York Times correspondent and author of When the War was Over, the classic history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, is one of only two Western reporters to visit Cambodia when it was Democratic Kamphuchea.
She began her career as a reporter in Cambodia in 1972 and is an expert on the Khmer Rouge and modern Cambodia.
Ms. Becker also wrote Bophana, the story of a young woman killed by the Khmer Rouge.
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