Since the beginnings of photography, the portrait has been a genre continually practiced by artists fascinated by the human face, its expressions, and its ability to reveal an individual. It has multiple uses, from “detective work” to the display of glamour. For tragic reasons linked...

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This series is a pure product of the logic of PhotoPhnomPenh. Indeed, last year during the “Intersection” exchange, which allowed a Cambodian photographer to work in dialogue with one of the foreign artists invited, Khvay Samnang began a series of portraits of his neighbors in the ...

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After seven years of study abroad, meeting up again with his parents in their modest place was a shock for the photographer, who found that they had grown old. He knows that, had he been present, he wouldn’t have seen this change, slowly coming about, day by day, imperceptible...

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We pay little attention to the objects of daily life; we don’t really see them, or else we see only the evidence of their functioning and their primary form. Yet, if they are lit in a different way, framed in close-up, we are set at a distance from them, and they are transformed into...

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For ten years, beginning in 1990, the photographer captured, in wide-angle black and white, the crowds in two commercial streets in Chengdu, the city where he was himself the owner of a boutique. Cutting sharply into the crowd, emphasizing faces and clothes with a flash, he delivers a...

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Of Moroccan origins, the photographer explores the situation of immigrants who, by choice or necessity, have had to settle in a foreign country. An open-ended problematic of identity, which, while exploring in the manner of a self-portrait that ceaselessly questions itself, the work ...

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The panoramic shot, a unique way of emphasizing a way of looking that is much more ample than our ordinary view, is rarely used in reportage, since the snapshot, in this format, would seem to be a random challenge. This is nonetheless what this photographer has done, creating ...

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Many young photographers experiment with the effects of light on objects, spaces, and faces, in order to tame them. But few do it with a determination that, with a violent flash shot and the choice of unconventional angles, destabilizes some tiny trinket, making us uncertai...

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A native of the countryside, the artist, who has chosen to live in the city, in no way intends to deny his origins, like many of his contemporaries, whom he views with a critical eye. He has decided, in a complex installation bringing together photography, texts, video, objects, and r...

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For a long time, the world of boxing has been a strong photographic subject, tempting because it provides the chance to seize the violent presence of the body in space, as well as the grace that emanates from the ballet of combatants in the ring. The choice of using black and white fo...

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