Photographer uses iPad to highlight Cambodian land grabbings

Forced eviction in Dey Karhorm - A photo by John Vink/Magnum

22 May 2012
ABC Radio Australia

A teenage girl was shot dead last week in her own home as part of a land dispute in Cambodia's Kratie village.

Last month, environmental activist Chut Wutty was killed while investigating illegal logging.

But this is barely scratching the surface when it comes to conflict over land in Cambodia, where land grabbing, both urban and rural, is rife

Local human rights group Licadho says in Phnom Penh and the 12 provinces in which it works, more than 400,000 people have been affected by land-grabbing and evictions in the last 10 years and the pace of the displacements has not decreased.

The human rights crisis has inspired Phnom-Penh-based photographer John Vink - and member of the renowned agency Magnum Photos - to come up with an innovative way to highlight the problem.