ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the figuration of victims through and in relation to images employed in outreach and explores how the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) outreach program interpellates a victim survivor who is to face its past. It discusses photographs hanging at Tuol Sleng and describes the movement of the photographs across contexts and genres, and the way they have come to represent victims of the Khmer Rouge regime. The chapter highlights these together in the encounter between the victim survivor, participating in the ECCC Study Tour, and the victim in the photograph. As its ad hoc predecessors, the permanent International Criminal Court conceives of outreach as a combination of medium of information sharing and mechanism for engagement. Through its outreach activities, the ECCC engages individuals and communities not only as informed members of the public but also as active participants of a larger transitional justice endeavour.