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"The Ghosts of Khmer: Light and Memory"

In the comfortable histories of our youth, genocide seemed an answered question; the retrograde horrors of a generation removed, a closed book. A decade before the present moment of uncertainty in our global existence, the photographer Binh Danh refused this pat conclusion. Danh’s early work compiled the Khmer Rouge regime's eerie death portraits, taken in the moments before its victims were executed, and transformed them into a living archive of proliferation: Danh devised a method for creating chlorophyll prints on tree leaves, and …