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A stark cell with a rusted metal bed and barred window in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on February 2, 2019.
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Phnom Penh, KH·2 Feb 2019

Inside a cell in the former Tuol Sleng prison Security Office 21 (S-21) of Democratic Kampuchea, converted into a Genocide Museum in the 1980s. Torture centers were used by the Khmer Rouge regime to obtain forced confessions. They were also the last stop before the "killing fields." Between April of 1975 and January of 1979, the Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the death of about 2 million people in Cambodia, in one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century. 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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A stark cell with a rusted metal bed and barred window in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on February 2, 2019.

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