Dith Pran ” killing fields ” photographer is no more..
Photo copyright Dith Pran /New york Times
My friend and favorite Photographer Dith Pran is no more. This week I remember him for his bravery, triumph of Human spirit over war crime.
Please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/nyregion/31dith.html?hp
Dith Pran (born September 27, 1942 – March 30, 200 
was a photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields. (He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.)
In 1975, Pran and New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg stayed behind in Cambodia to cover the fall of the capital Phnom Penh to the communist Khmer Rouge forces. Schanberg and other foreign reporters were allowed to leave, but Pran was not permitted to leave the country. When Cambodians were forced to work in forced labor camps, Pran had to endure four years of starvation and torture before finally escaping to Thailand in 1979. He coined the phrase “killing fields” to refer to the clusters of corpses and skeletal remains of victims he encountered during his 40-mile escape. His three brothers were killed back in Cambodia.
From 1980, Pran worked as a photojournalist with The New York Times in the United States. He also campaigned for recognition of the Cambodian Genocide victims, especially as founder and president of The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project. He was a recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1998 and of The International Center in New York’s Award of Excellence.
Pran died on 30 March 2008, having been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer just three months earlier.
Cheers
suresh
what to cheer suresh what a tragedy and felt very sad to read the misery Dith Pran had undergone and how he came out and reached high scales in photography. It is great he was ur friend and I only can pray for him may Pran Rest In Peace.
photograph you have put speaks volumens about the photographer and his committment to quality.
we a;;can pray for his sour and may the bereaved family gets strength to bear the loss.
Pran lived on and with purpose! His energy will radiate for eons!
wow.
the picture just took my breath away.
will definitely try to catch the movie.
Reading this I feel like Pran may have died but while he was alive he has really lived… what an inspiration!
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