All photos: Roland Neveu
Saturday, April 17, 2010Traversing The Orient Magazine
Georgie Walsh gains insight into the fall of Phnom Penh through the powerful and harrowing images of the French Photojournalist, Roland Neveu
Those with a keen interest in modern history may well be familiar with the work of the French photojournalist Roland Neveu. His pictures have been featured on the cover of Time Magazine whom he worked for throughout the 80’s -covering numerous stories including missionaries in New Guinea and the war in Lebanon from 1982 to 1985.
He took the first images of Soviet prisoners in Afghanistan’s mudjahedeen holy war, the wars in Lebanon and conflicts in Central America. He was also the first to photograph victims of AIDS in Uganda in 1986. He has worked as a stills photographer on many films including the blockbusters Platoon, Born on The Fourth of July, Thelma and Louise and The Doors. As a documentary filmmaker he covered the fall of Marcos in the Philippines, the Touaregs rebellion in the Sahara in 1990 and the plight of Kurd refugees after the Gulf War in 1991.
For his latest project, Roland has returned to the day that launched his career and the work he is most famous for, the fall of Phnom Penh in April 1975.
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