North & South

REMAINS OF THEIR DAYS

They are small things, simple things, but things that tell a life story. They’re things Cambodians who survived Pol Pot’s killing fields, and piteous refugee camps, brought to New Zealand with them and have kept as touchstones of their former life. And they’re things that Cambodian photographer Kim Hak is travelling the world to document, the images appearing in his exhibition Alive, which opens in Auckland in June.

Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975,

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