But one of them is
Alan Rockoff. I knew him when he and I worked for the
221st Signal Company in Vietnam in 1969. I joined the
221st as an
Audio Recording Engineer, OJT'd into
Photography and then was transferred into
AV Management.
Al took
good great pictures for the
USArmy and when the end in
Cambodia was near in 1973, after he was discharged from the Army,
Al (allegedly) took a cab over to
Pnomh Penh in
Cambodia and continued his photo work there. His coverage of the fall of the capitol city was memorialized in the movie,
The Killing Fields.
Rockoff has since disassociated himself with his portrayal by
John Malkovich and plot elements of the movie.
He lives in
Pnomh Penh and
Ft. Lauderdale/FL, still working as a photographer and still covering the continuing struggle of Cambodians to earn freedom from SouthEast Asian oppression.
The image at left, at top, shows
Alan Rockoff as a young man in the late 1960's in Saigon; at bottom, his image in 2008.
