Le sublime n’est pas dispensé de l’immonde;
Et je ne serais pas surpris le moins du monde
Quand un ange viendrait nous révéler à tous
Que dans le ciel profond les astres ont des poux.(Sublimity is never far from scum;
I shouldn’t be at all surprised if some
Angel descended out of paradise
To tell us all the heavenly stars have lice.)- Victor Hugo, [IV.xxx] «C’est une loi: Veuillot existe…» (Barbey breathes–it’s the way things are…”)
Robert Götzfried (German, b. Lindau, Germany, based Munich, Germany) - Phnom Penh Nights II, Photography
Phnom Penh had a population of 2-3 million people in the 70s. After the Khmer Rouge took over the city was almost abandoned and the population went down as low as 20000 people. This all happened within one week. After four years the Khmer Rouge were driven out of Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese in 1979, and people began to return to the city. The population today is about 1.5 million people. This series tries to picture an abandoned Phnom Penh.