Sebastiao Salgado

 Sebastiao Reibeiro  Salgado Junior  (8th February, 1944 Age 76) is a Brazilian Social Documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has basically travelled over 120 Countries only for his photographic projects. Most (or all) of these have appeared in numerous press publications and books. Turing exhibitions of his work has been presented throughout the whole world. Saldago trained as a Economist, while earning a masters degree in economics from the University Of São Paulo in Brazil. He started to work as a Economist for the INO (International Coffee Organisation), often travelling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs. He chose (in his own opinion) to abandon a career as a economist and chose to continue taking photographs in 1973.

He published different books such as  The Other Americas, Sahel, Migrations, and Genesis. 

 

Cambodia,Flag history

Cambodia is a southeast Asian nation whose landscape spans low-lying plains.The Mekong Delta,mountains and Gulf of Thailand's coastline. Phnom Penh is it's capital city with around 2 million people while Cambodia is populated with 16 million people. Phnom Penh is home to the art deco Central Market,Royal palace and their National museum's historical and archaeological exhibits.In the country's northwest are the ruins of Angkor Wat,a massive stone temple complex built during the Khmer Empire.  

(Flag of Cambodia)

The National flag of Cambodia in its present form was originally adopted in 1948 and readopted in 1993 after the Constituent Assembly election in 1993 and restoration of the monarchy.

Since around the 1850, the Cambodian flag has featured a depiction of Angkor Wat in the centre.The current flag with a blue border and red centre were adopted following Cambodia's independence in 1948. It was used until 9 October 1970, when a new flag was introduced for Lon Nol's Khmer Republic that lasted until the takeover of the Khmer Rouge in 1975.The subsequent state of Democratic Kampuchea. which existed from 1975 to 1979, used a red flag with a three-towered  Angkor wat design design retained in yellow beginning in 1976. The Peoples republic of kampuchea was established in 1979, after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia.

Lighting,Thunder and Rain

Today we had to learn about a Cambodian myth called Lighting,Thunder and Rain.Myth means something that's quite similar to a story but passed on by other people or your family.