The Bomb Ponds: Work by Vandy Rattana
Between 1964 and 1975 the US military dropped 2,756,941 tons of explosives
across Cambodia. This figure -five times the generally accepted number- was
not acknowledged until 2000 when Bill Clinton traveled to Vietnam and quietly
released previously classified Air Force data on American bombings in former
Indochina. Dissatisfied with the level of documentation produced on the subject,
Vandy has created a series of landscape photographs testifying to the existence
of the craters created by the bombings, known today as the “bomb ponds.”
across Cambodia. This figure -five times the generally accepted number- was
not acknowledged until 2000 when Bill Clinton traveled to Vietnam and quietly
released previously classified Air Force data on American bombings in former
Indochina. Dissatisfied with the level of documentation produced on the subject,
Vandy has created a series of landscape photographs testifying to the existence
of the craters created by the bombings, known today as the “bomb ponds.”
