o’russei exhibit [2007]

The O’Russei Exhibit aimed to expose the community’s scattered personal visual archives to its very own members. 

As I was doing research on the rare family photos remaining from the before Khmer Rouge era, I realized that many of my interlocutors didn’t have access to the portraits of their own loved ones, as those had been scattered.

I digitized the photographs and made enlargements in order to organize a one day exhibit at the mosque during Eid with the encouragements of the community leaders. 

Additional prints and engraved CDs were provided to the photographs’ owners, family members and kept in the mosque as a repository.