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"Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people’s rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J." [NYT] A slideshow of Pran and his work is available here.
Dith Pran, Photographer
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1:56 PM on Sun Mar 30 2008
By ian spiegelman
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He was, and I mean this with utmost respect, the Haing S. Ngor of newspaper photographers. I always got a weird feeling seeing his byline on summer frolics or a Bloomberg press conference but it really demonstrated that one could overcome, ya know.
Great post.
@DonPardoCalrissian:
Yep - kinda like Nick Ut, who took the photo of the naked napalmed Vietnamese girl as well as the weepy Paris Hilton on her way back to jail.
@fileunder: Exactly! Spine-tingling.
Netflixing The Killing Fields. It's horrible that I never hear about a lot of people until they die and I read their obit!
@Maulleigh: Try paying attention to life.
@artynimue1: Was that even necessary?
@Maulleigh: Sorry.
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