John Vink was born in Belgium in 1948. He studied photography at the fine arts school of La Cambre in 1968 and has been a freelance journalist since 1971. He joined Agence Vu in Paris in 1986 and won the Eugene Smith Award for his work on Water in the Sahel that same year. Between 1987 and 1993 he devoted his energies to a major work on refugees in the world. He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1997. He first visited Cambodia in 1989 and has used the Kingdom as his base since 2000. Besides documenting the social and political situation and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, he is working on a major essay about land issues in Cambodia.

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