Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard and mass grave of victims of the Khmer Rouge – killed between 1975 and 1979 – about 17 kilometres (11 mi) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed over one million people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center.; Cambodia, December 2016

The landscape does not recover from this. Nature has lost its innocence. Every tree is tainted, the seas are polluted by tears and blood, the bones and teeth are implanted in the earth and every rain washes up new pain until we are tired of sorting them out and just leave them where they are.

The Series “Magic Tree” is one roll of film that was shot on location in Choeung Ek.