Climate change is real. The rainy reason lasted until November 27, one day after the opening of the Photo Phnom Penh festival, even though it was a late opening date in the festival’s history. Now it’s hot, too hot for the season during the day, but the evenings are lov...

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For personal reasons Uy Nou Sereimony has had to take time off from photography. But he has never lost his passion for it and keeps on looking, sometimes rather unmethodically, for ways of expressing himself through still image. After developing a graphic approach, he likes u...

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Imagining Flood is a photographic study of the recent floods in Bangkok. The collection of photos aims to capture the foreboding and surreal nature of the event by presenting the flood in a dreamlike and other worldly manner. When the news first arrived that Bangkok ...

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If the photographer himself was not Indian, chances are that we would have been criticized for presenting a caricature image of India, a type of kitsch, of laughable practices. However, the look that this documentary artist takes at the exceptional sense of color is in fact a ...

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While exploring dance in all parts of the world, Isabel Muñoz was especially taken with Cambodia. There, she came across the most precise encounter between bodies and architecture, between dance and sculpture. Just as she had done earlier for the tango and flamenco, she demanded ...

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Clément Briend had previously been in Phnom Penh for a festival, doing what he liked to do best, projecting images in public space. He likes this art form, both fragile and magical, flexible and impressive, to present photography and make it accessible to all. Over the last tw...

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Starting in 2009, in conjunction with the Institut français du Cambodge, Philong Sovan and Tang Chhin Sothy have been working with young aspiring photographers. Beyond technical advice, this weekly course starts with project design, development a...

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There is a house by the sea 120km from Hanoi called Thien Giao. In this house the hearts of its occupants beats in unison for one hope, the hope that they will all be able to love and be loved. I visited this house one year ago, and it did not leave me any lasting impressions or fee...

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This photographer wants photography to take us beyond what the eye can see. He wants to expand our field of vision so that we can see the world, the real world, up close and differently. He therefore chose the panorama format which, when extended, enables him to capture in a si...

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I’m from a generation that knew nothing of the naughtiness, activism, criticism and commitment of the women’s lib movements or of the artists back in the 1960s, 70s or 80s. The body that I know is a body codified to the extreme, whether in appearance, sexuality, health or youth...

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Clothing was first used to protect the body... from the burning sun, from rain, from cold. It was also used to cover the body’s private parts. Then it became something functional—outfitted for work—then more decorative and attractive. Human invented fashion and styles that neve...

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In the past, public telephones in Phnom Penh were simple affairs with landlines either in front of or in a store. There were all kinds of telephone booths or imitations. You would see long lists of numbers for places that could be called from that telephone and what the rate w...

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In 2008, JR, who was not yet the artist with the worldwide reputation that he has today, participated in spectacular fashion in the first edition of PPP. On the occasion of the fifth edition, he is participating to our anniversary by means of a special stage for his great “...

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For Zoltán Jókay, people are the main thing, and emotion. In that they give back to us something of ourselves, in that they perhaps enable us to better understand and feel. His portraits are in a documentary tradition that knows where it comes from, which is also very familiar ...

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