BEYOND THE KILLING FIELDS GEB - Tapa dura

Kari Rene Hall, 33, has been a Los Angeles Times photographer since 1980. An award-winning photojournalist, Hall has traveled to Vietnam and Thailand on assignment for The Times and has taken a special interest in covering Cambodian, Vietnamese, Montagnard and Cham refugee communities in the United States. Hall's photographs from Cambodian refugee camps have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines around the U.S. and were part of the Force Out exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, which is currently traveling internationally. Photographs of Cambodian Refugees at Site 2 won National Press Photographers Association's 1991 documentary project competition. In 1988, Hall was a judge in Arets Presse Foto annual Pictures of the Year competition in Odense, Denmark. A southern California native, Hall received a B.A. from California State University, Long Beach in 1980 with a special major in photography and radio/television with a minor in psychology.

John Getlin, 41, has been a Los Angeles Times reporter since 1979. He has made several reporting trips to Southeast Asia, covering stories on Cambodian refugee, the search for American prisoners of war in Vietnam and the repartition of Montagnard tribes men in the United States. He is currently a Times correspondent based in New York City, where he lives with his wife Heidi Evans, a reporter for the New York Daily News.