Photo exhibition, organized by Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) Voices for Gender Equality Project is pleased to host a photography exhibition at the Bophana Center. The exhibition showcases the photographs and profiles of 15 women human rights defenders (“WHRD”) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (“LGBTIQ”) activists to promote and amplify their voices, with each profile sharing a unique personal perspective on human rights issues, including LGBTIQ rights, gender equality, and gender-based violence.

The public is able to visit the exhibition with at least 2m physical distancing rule. Also, wear a mask, clean your hands. We're very much thankful for your cooperation to prevent COVID-19.

Photographed by Paul K. Cummings

Neither journalist nor photographer, Paul Cummings was postwar Cambodia’s first tourist and was able to document various rare aspects of Cambodia after a brutal war and a bloody revolution.

Heading a pioneering tour company, he led the first tourist group to visit Phnom Penh and Angkor Wat after the fall of the Khmer Rouge and made many private visits to the country to survey tourist areas commencing in 1983.

“Welcome to Cambodia: From War Zone to Tourist Destination” is a selection of the hundreds of images he took of Cambodia at that time, and will form a permanent part of Bophana Center’s website.