Richard Fitoussi

Richard Fitoussi is the CEO and Founder of the Cambodian Land Mine Museum Relief Fund. He has been involved with land mine clearence, victim relief, international awareness and numerous fundraising programmes since establishing the CLMMRF in 2001. He is a Ryerson Still Photography Graduate student whose reportage includes the Karin Hill Tribe Conflict in Burma and the 25th Anniversary of the Cambodia's Killing Fields. He has also spent several months living with impoverised prostitutes in Denpasar Indonesia.

Richard has led the Cambodian Land Mine Museum Relief Fund photographic lecture for the last three years. Much of the organization's funding has been raised through this awareness program about the land mine crisis in Cambodia. The presentation involves an extensive lecture accompanied by photojournalism of the nightmare of land mines. His photography captures life in post Khmer Rouge Cambodia and illustrates the state of Khmer culture, both in rural and urban enviroments. The work is imbued with emotional and physical devastation of the Pol Pot regime's legacy on Cambodia, but also highlights the spirit of the Khmer people who are moving forward to build a new country. His exhibit was invited to appear at the Telluride Moutntain Film Festival this past May as part of 10 featured photographers from TIME, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, MAGNUM and ROLLING STONE as well as works by Robert Capa the "father" of photojournalism.

Richard's volunteer efforts have helped him to raise over $125,000.00 for his proposed Land Mine Museum Prevention and Rehabilitaion facility in collaboration with his Khmer friend and colleague, Aki Ra. The project is now in partnership with Texas A&M University and is being followed by the BBC and other international media.