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| VICE removes images adding smiles to Khmer Rouge victims |
| 2021-04-14 |
| [NYPOST] Cambodia condemned images published by US media group VICE featuring newly colorized photographs of the Khmer Rouge "killing fields" victims, saying the images were an insult to the dead because some mugshots had been altered to add smiles. VICE removed the article and photos later on Sunday, saying they did not meet its editorial standards and it was investigating. The artist behind the work, Matt Loughrey, declined to comment. In the article published on Friday, Loughrey said his project to colourise images from the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, or S-21, aimed to humanise the 14,000 Cambodians executed and tortured there. Just part of the project to cheapen everything... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 Not that'd get Vice off the hook. Anyway... Vacationing socialist style, My nation marched many a mile, And April is hot In that holiday spot! All I got was this shirt... and a smile. [smiling Czeslawa graphic here] |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Flemp4426 2021-04-14 22:09 |
| #10 Read somewhere, not that I can find it now, that Loughrey said he did it for the families. As in, at their request. Wouldn't surprise me if that were true, primitive peoples notoriously having terrible taste in portraiture compared to us smart-focusing filter-rocking post-ironic geniuses. |
| Posted by: Mad Eye Flemp4426 2021-04-14 22:00 |
| #9 I would have preferred winks and finger pistols. |
| Posted by: Jatch Guelph4728 2021-04-14 15:05 |
| #8 Even by the flimsy, gossamer standards of our day, this is a special kind of degenerate. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2021-04-14 13:28 |
| #7 *Boggle* Next the "artist" will turn Dachau into Margaritaville? |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-04-14 13:12 |
| #6 Communism with a smiley face. |
| Posted by: Phavimp Smith9261 2021-04-14 13:07 |
| #5 Nah, what you do is come right back with the same photos, and do exit wounds, blunt trauma impact, starvation faces. "What I bought. What was delivered." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-04-14 12:51 |
| #4 Worshippers dance with a human SKULL to appease Hindu deity and call for rainfall and a large harvest in India |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-14 07:23 |
| #3 Communism’s not so bad! Look, they really were smiling on the inside, the “artist” just brought that out. |
| Posted by: Sloger Ominemp8599 2021-04-14 06:24 |
| #2 The sh*tbag who made the Obutthole "Hope" faux soviet "art" poster, where is he now? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-14 05:35 |
| #1 Somebody should add smile to the artist's face - with broken beer bottle. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-14 03:24 |