I’d like to send out a gentle reminder regarding your remembrances in a Tribute to Loved Ones Lost to the Khmer Rouge and your photo contributions to Kramanation: Wear Krama Campaign. Please send to theary.seng@gmail.com – Theary C. Seng
We want to put a face and a name to the cold figure of 1.7 Million… our loved ones are more than a number… we need your help. Thank you to those who have contributed… a gentle reminder to others who have not…
My brother, Kerry Hamill, was a beautiful, strong, courageous and much loved man. He was the eldest of five children growing up by the sea in New Zealand. We had a blessed childhood, full of friends, fun, adventure and family. It was a childhood that fostered Kerry’s love of the sea and sailing but this love would ultimately bring about his premature death. During his version of New Zealand’s youth traditional OE (overseas experience), in August 1978 Kerry unknowingly sailed into Cambodian waters and was seized by the Khmer Rouge navy, taken to Toul Sleng prison (S21) where he was tortured and murdered. Kerry, you and our brother John are with me always. I mourn for the loss of your life, the lost experiences of joy and love that the future held for you; the uncle that my children were never to meet and the future family of your own that was taken from you. My search for your boat ‘Foxy Lady’ and your final resting place, where ever that may be and in whatever form that may take, continues so that one day I may bring you home to ‘Rest in Peace’. - Rob Hamill: Olympian; civil party in the Extraordinary Chambers (ECCC) www.brothernumberone.co.nz
In loving memory of UY Pierom as remembered by Artist/poet Chath pier Sath; pointing to his drawing of his brother UY Pierom who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, along with Pierom's wife and all his in-laws. Both of Chath's parents also died when he was very young, one before 1975, the other immediately after the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia. "I don't really remember my brother that much. He was the oldest. I was too young to remember, but I do remember the night the Khmer Rouge came, we were all together as a family, my brother Pierom, his wife, children and in-laws. However, during the evacuation, we got separated. It was only after the Khmer Rouge that my mother knew of his fate and the fate of his family. He was a Lon Nol soldier fighting against the Vietcong on the American side. He was with my father when my father was shot and killed in battle. This is all I can remember." - Chath pier Sath
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We are starting our fourth page. Thank you to all of you who have already contributed. We look forward to many more photographs, especially ones at events outside Cambodia.
Louise Allison Cort, curator at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC admiring high quality Khmer silk wrapped in traditional Khmer krama (Photo: VOA Pin Sisovann, 2010)
Good Krama Store in San Francisco - an amazing collection of photos and creative uses of Khmer kramas. "We have created a small business based on our favorite things in the world: KRAMA! We travel back and forth from Cambodia several times a year, importing krama back into the states and making many people happy with what we agree is the best scarf in existence. We strive to not only share krama with the world but to give back to the culture and communities which these kramas come from. When I saw your site I was happy to see more people who share our passion for krama." - Ryno Barela (Photos: Good Krama)
Theary Seng, 2008... the kramas also go well with bright yellow Gap rain boots.
The team at Cambodian Living Arts in their kramas, 2010. (Photo: Cambodian Living Arts)
Whoa! Whoa! Let's keep this PG-rated (or here, BRHSG-rated). The krama protecting the family jewels. Artist Sopheap Pich in one of his krama boxers (he has 20+ made at a time!) at his Phnom Penh studio, July 2010 (Photo: Nicolas Axelrod).
Little genius Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt and Brad Pitt showing us the different ways to don the kramas (photos: internet)
Cambodian-American rapper/activist/filmmaker praCh Ly performing on stage (photo: Kimsua Chay, above); with actor Rev. Jack Ong (director of Haing Ngor Foundation), Jared L. Davis (co-founder of ORPHANAGE Film Production who recently won 2 Emmys for his RESIDUE, as well as praCh's agent) at Santa Monica, 2009 looking very California-serious in their kramas: "When I perform, I usually wrap it [krama] around my hand or put it on the mic stand or put it in my back pocket and let it hang."
MORE PHOTOS at
www.thearyseng.com
1. A Tribute to Loved Ones Lost to the Khmer Rouge
We want to put a face and a name to the cold figure of 1.7 Million… our loved ones are more than a number… we need your help. Thank you to those who have contributed… a gentle reminder to others who have not…
My brother, Kerry Hamill, was a beautiful, strong, courageous and much loved man. He was the eldest of five children growing up by the sea in New Zealand. We had a blessed childhood, full of friends, fun, adventure and family. It was a childhood that fostered Kerry’s love of the sea and sailing but this love would ultimately bring about his premature death. During his version of New Zealand’s youth traditional OE (overseas experience), in August 1978 Kerry unknowingly sailed into Cambodian waters and was seized by the Khmer Rouge navy, taken to Toul Sleng prison (S21) where he was tortured and murdered. Kerry, you and our brother John are with me always. I mourn for the loss of your life, the lost experiences of joy and love that the future held for you; the uncle that my children were never to meet and the future family of your own that was taken from you. My search for your boat ‘Foxy Lady’ and your final resting place, where ever that may be and in whatever form that may take, continues so that one day I may bring you home to ‘Rest in Peace’. - Rob Hamill: Olympian; civil party in the Extraordinary Chambers (ECCC) www.brothernumberone.co.nz
In loving memory of UY Pierom as remembered by Artist/poet Chath pier Sath; pointing to his drawing of his brother UY Pierom who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, along with Pierom's wife and all his in-laws. Both of Chath's parents also died when he was very young, one before 1975, the other immediately after the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia. "I don't really remember my brother that much. He was the oldest. I was too young to remember, but I do remember the night the Khmer Rouge came, we were all together as a family, my brother Pierom, his wife, children and in-laws. However, during the evacuation, we got separated. It was only after the Khmer Rouge that my mother knew of his fate and the fate of his family. He was a Lon Nol soldier fighting against the Vietcong on the American side. He was with my father when my father was shot and killed in battle. This is all I can remember." - Chath pier Satho O o
2. Kramanation: Wear Krama Campaign
We are starting our fourth page. Thank you to all of you who have already contributed. We look forward to many more photographs, especially ones at events outside Cambodia.
Louise Allison Cort, curator at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, DC admiring high quality Khmer silk wrapped in traditional Khmer krama (Photo: VOA Pin Sisovann, 2010)
Good Krama Store in San Francisco - an amazing collection of photos and creative uses of Khmer kramas. "We have created a small business based on our favorite things in the world: KRAMA! We travel back and forth from Cambodia several times a year, importing krama back into the states and making many people happy with what we agree is the best scarf in existence. We strive to not only share krama with the world but to give back to the culture and communities which these kramas come from. When I saw your site I was happy to see more people who share our passion for krama." - Ryno Barela (Photos: Good Krama)
Theary Seng, 2008... the kramas also go well with bright yellow Gap rain boots.
The team at Cambodian Living Arts in their kramas, 2010. (Photo: Cambodian Living Arts)
Whoa! Whoa! Let's keep this PG-rated (or here, BRHSG-rated). The krama protecting the family jewels. Artist Sopheap Pich in one of his krama boxers (he has 20+ made at a time!) at his Phnom Penh studio, July 2010 (Photo: Nicolas Axelrod).
Little genius Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt and Brad Pitt showing us the different ways to don the kramas (photos: internet)
Cambodian-American rapper/activist/filmmaker praCh Ly performing on stage (photo: Kimsua Chay, above); with actor Rev. Jack Ong (director of Haing Ngor Foundation), Jared L. Davis (co-founder of ORPHANAGE Film Production who recently won 2 Emmys for his RESIDUE, as well as praCh's agent) at Santa Monica, 2009 looking very California-serious in their kramas: "When I perform, I usually wrap it [krama] around my hand or put it on the mic stand or put it in my back pocket and let it hang."MORE PHOTOS at
www.thearyseng.com
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