The operation was incredibly challenging. More difficult than ever, with an unbelievable succession of more or less important, even catastrophic events that managed week after week, to take place with an indisputable talent of coordination. We can unpretentiously list them ha...

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For the fourth consecutive year, PhotoPhnomPenh is offering a program of significant exhibitions to increase and pursue deeper the Europe-Asia dialog on the work of young creators. It is our good fortune that, thanks to the Institut français du Cambodge, we can look back on what we h...

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Exhibition, lectures, screening, Night of the year...

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Built in 1930 by Mies van der Rohe, the Tugendhat Villa is one of the most perfect expressions of modernity. It is also marked by the memory of its owners, who had to become exiles in Switzerland in 1938 to flee Nazism. It has been restored and has been open to the public since 199...

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A new discovery from the remarkable Pathshala School, founded and run by Shahidul Alam, a school that makes Bangladesh one of the most notable places for documentary photography. This very young man, who also participated in the workshops of Munem Wassif and Sohrab Hura, treats t...

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He is one of the best-known photographers of his generation and has exhibited all around the world. His series “La chute” (“The Fall”) made him an artist recognized by the public, after other professionals and collectors had appreciated his talent. In love with color and movement, ...

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Admittedly, for each of us, an original landscape, a space of departure exists. But when it comes to landscape, the one who looks at it and parcels out the space, invents it by putting it into a form. Gafsou is Swiss, but he has produced equally remarkable work in Mediterranean c...

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Gulmarg, in Kashmir, is the highest mountain station in the world. With winter sports when the snow appears at the foot of the Himalayas, a haven of coolness in the summer since the colonial period for the well-off, this pleasant corner of the world is also one of the most militari...

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A predilection for white, as if the landscape were a revealing screen, on which marks, colored or minimalist, inscribe themselves. They love space, give it rhythm, surprise or invite contemplation. This modality, brought about by a judgment always accurate and precise from the ...

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For his first exhibition, this young photographer, who developed his project during the workshop given by Sovan Philong in Studio Image of the French Institute, before resuming his job on the staff of the Phnom Penh Post. He offers an amused and amusing portrait of Phnom Penh. From a ...

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He is a professional architect who practices and builds. His images explore the city at night, with its culture of space and organization. He knows how to choose, in the physical sense of the term, his points of view, and he is sensitive to the ways in which lighting structures surfa...

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In square format, with blurred, faded and dark colors, in spaces without characters, restoring an atmosphere strongly marked by history, this series, situated in Central Europe, returns to places that were at the heart of the tragedy of the Second World War. Marks in the snow, wal...

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Finished two months ago and shown for the first time, the new series by Yendoo Jung, “Southern Rainbow Seoul,” is a return to the theme of his preceding approach, the habitats of the middle and upper-middle classes of the Korean capital. In one of the immense high-rises, distinguisha...

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