Kim Hak, a Cambodian photographer, captured everyday objects that were hidden or abandoned during the devastating Khmer Rouge Regime (1975-1979).
Readers might begin to ask a few niggling and mundane questions, like: Would a woman suffering from diarrhea, chronic dehydration and malnutrition really be able to tramp around a sun-blitzed island, hiding in abandoned buildings, under trees and in a cave, with only a few fainting spells to show for it?
In Madonna's video on AIDS orphans in Malawi, "I Am Because We Are," she says she was drawn to the country when she was told such children "were everywhere, living on the streets, sleeping under bridges, hiding in abandoned buildings, being abducted, kidnapped, raped".
One led underground, to hidden tunnels and abandoned metro stations.
Finally, I wanted the viewer to see what I had seen: a people utterly forgotten, abandoned, hidden from the world's consciousness — a people living as ghosts".
Finally, I wanted the viewer to see what I had seen: a people utterly forgotten, abandoned, hidden from the world's consciousness a people living as ghosts".
Twenty-odd years later, a couple of laborers find Rosie's suitcase hidden in an abandoned house not far from where the young lovers were to meet.
As Londoners and the people of the nearby villages flee in confused terror, the narrator manages to stay hidden in an abandoned building and watches in dismay as the Martians begin to take over.
A gruesome secret hidden in an abandoned manor house, an intense friendship between two teenage girls, a village of crumbling graveyards and deserted churches, grisly experiments investigating the afterlife... Marcus Sedgwick isn't understating things when he says with a grin that his latest novel White Crow - longlisted for the 2010 Guardian children's fiction prize - is "not a bunch of laughs".
New York City is brimming with abandoned, hidden and forgotten spaces.
