![]() Neth Pheaktra, the spokesperson for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), that is, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, said that Loughrey has also failed to remember those who survived the regime. “But he didn’t request for official use.” “As I can see, he just took the photos from our website, which was officially launched in late January to help assist families in finding their relatives,” Nisay said. He went on to say that Loughrey did not seek approval from the museum to use the portraits and documentation that is the property of the museum. It is misrepresenting the actual history.” But the Irish artist changed them and added smile faces. “It profoundly affects the dignity of the victims because, you know, those victims had their photos taken while they faced life-threatening situation and torture. “For the museum, we can’t accept this,” he said. Hang Nisay, director of the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, which is located on the site of S-21, strongly deplored Loughrey’s artworks, stressing that it is totally distasteful for the victims and their surviving families. “MCFA does not accept this kind of manipulation and considers this work of Matt Loughrey to seriously affect the dignity of the victims, the reality of Cambodia’s history, and in violation of the rights of the Museum as the lawful owners and custodians of these photographs,” the ministry had stated in its announcement, adding that the ministry had never been in communication with Loughrey. The photos posted with his interview had not only been colorized but had also been digitally altered to add smiles on the faces of the victims of the camp known as S-21 during the Pol Pot regime. In an interview with Irish artist Matt Loughrey posted on VICE on April 9 and entitled “These People Were Arrested by the Khmer Rouge and Never Seen Again,” Loughrey explained that he had altered photos of prisoners of the regime’s extermination camp Tuol Sleng to revitalize their history. Within hours of the ministry issuing its warning, VICE on April 11 had taken the article off its site. This article also led the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (MCFA) on April 11 to threaten legal action if VICE did not immediately remove the article and photos from its website. PHNOM PENH-An article published at VICE-a news website covering politics, social issues and culture-has sparked outrage among Cambodians who viewed as morally unacceptable and contemptuous to the victims of the Khmer Rouge regime to have retouched their portraits taken before they were tortured and executed. ![]() According to the museum, Loughrey refused, though the post has since been removed, potentially following reports from other Instagram users.Threats of legal action made by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and an online petition circulating among Cambodians led the website to take down the story He has not responded to any further enquiries.įollowing the backlash to the edited photographs, the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum contacted Loughrey to request that he delete an animation of a Holocaust victim that Loughrey had published to his Instagram. When asked if he colorized images and added smiles to further images, he did not reply. Loughrey responded to emails on April 11 and asked to speak off the record. “The more I looked into it and the more images I saw, I thought, well, this has to be done,” Loughrey was quoted as saying. He then saw the size of the publicly accessible archive and the interview suggests that he then took it upon himself to download and edit more photographs. In the original VICE article, Loughrey explained that he was initially contacted by “a person in Cambodia” and asked to edit three images. We regret the error and will investigate how this failure of the editorial process occurred. The story did not meet the editorial standards of VICE and has been removed. ![]() The article included photographs of Khmer Rouge victims that Loughrey manipulated beyond colorization. On Friday April 9th, VICE Asia published an interview with Matt Loughrey, an artist working to restore and colorize images from Security Prison 21 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which was used by the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 until its fall in 1979. VICE removed the article, replacing it with a statement: ![]()
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