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Photojournalist Go Takayama Imprisoned In Cambodia
Chris Mackler, Photographer
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Cape Girardeau | MO | United States | Posted: 5:02 PM on 12.04.10 |
->> Photojournalist, friend and former Ohio University Viscom classmate is currently imprisoned in Cambodia for taking photos during the Angkor Photo Workshop.
From NPPA (http://bit.ly/fpDZev):
"SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA (December 3, 2010) – Photojournalist Go Takayama, 28, a visual journalist from Japan who is a graduate of Ohio University's School of Visual Communication and who has interned at several American newspapers, has been jailed in Cambodia after taking pictures for a story he was working while participating in the Angkor Photo Workshops.
After photographing a married couple inside a home on the evening of November 23, 2010, Takayama was stopped on the street by undercover police and detained until additional police arrived, Angkor Photo Workshop organizer Jessica Lim told News Photographer magazine today. They confiscated his camera along with 78 photographs from his memory card, which have been admitted as evidence in an accusation charging Takayama with producing pornographic content. He has been under arrest and in prison since that night."
We've started a Facebook page to spread the word and help in anyway possible: http://on.fb.me/hlqEcl
Takayama is really a stand up guy, he deserves all the help we can give him. He is currently awaiting trial, and if found guilty he could face 6 months to a year in prison. |
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David A. Cantor, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 12:46 PM on 12.06.10 |
| ->> What did he shoot? Have those images been posted anywhere? They say pornographic, but the one image I saw was not of that nature. |
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G.J. McCarthy, Photographer
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Chris Mackler, Photographer
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Cape Girardeau | MO | United States | Posted: 1:02 PM on 12.06.10 |
->> Matt,
The photographs have not be released, but according to all accounts, there is no actual nudity in them.
From the NPPA article:
"The 78 photographs depict a couple hugging and holding each other," Lim said today. "Although there was never any nudity, the man had his shirt off and halfway through the shoot the woman took her blouse off as well. The man had on shorts and the woman had on trousers throughout the entire shoot and there was no explicit sexual activity."
And from the Angkor Photo Workshops Press Release (http://bit.ly/hGImS4):
"For his photo project for the Workshops, Takayama had researched and decided to base his work on a Cambodian folktale titled the ‘Seven Color Princess’. In order to illustrate various aspects of the folktale, he had previously gone to photograph several other topics and subjects.
In the four days in Siem Reap before he was arrested, Takayama had taken almost 1,400 photographs of subjects such as a crocodile farm, the floating market, Tonle Sap lake, a boxing match in a Pagoda, Wat Damnak Pagoda, and a traditional Khmer wedding. All these subjects were photographed to illustrate different parts of the ‘Seven Color Princess’ folklore.
The photographs he had been arrested for were intended to demonstrate one aspect of the folklore – the idea of strong, possessive love. This idea was obtained from the folklore in the story about the crocodile and the princess. In the folklore, when the crocodile had found out the princess was going to leave to marry another man, it ended up eating the princess so that she would remain with it forever.
Takayama had intended to visually express this aspect of the folklore by showing strong, possessive love demonstrated between two people." |
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G.J. McCarthy, Photographer
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Dallas | TX | US | Posted: 1:03 PM on 12.06.10 |
->> Oh crap -- sorry Cantor. Didn't see your post.
Apologies for the redundancies, all. |
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Sean D. Elliot, Photographer, Photo Editor
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