Perpetrator Images, Perpetrator Artifacts: The Nomad Archives of Tuol Sleng (S-21)
This essay examines the production and circulation of the mug shots of the detainees generated by the Khmer Rouge machinery at the centre of torture S-21 (Phnom Penh).When they were taken, these images played a key role in the process of identifying, repressing and killing those considered enemies during the regime of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-197