In the Eclipse of Angkor

Binh Danh... Ghost of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum #2 (2008, Daguerreotype). From the project In the Eclipse of Angkor by Binh Danh. "...Binh Danh received his MFA from Stanford University in 2004 and has emerged as an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war, both in Viet Nam and Cambodia—work that, in his own words, deals with 'mortality, memory, history, landscape, justice, evidence, and spirituality.' His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on the Daguerreotype process."