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Angkor Photography Festival
TOP, from (“Thai Child Boxing“)
© Susetta Bozzi, 2008
Now that SIPF is over, the next big event to watch out in Southeast Asia is the Angkor Photography Festival. It will be on from 23 Nov to 28 Nov in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The first festival of its kind in SEA, this is its fourth year running. [...]
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Dith Pran
Dith, reuniting with his family in Siem Reap, 1989
© Steve McCurry/Magnum
Immortalized in The Killing Fields, Cambodian photographer, Dith Pran, passed away yesterday due to pancreatic cancer.
“You’ve probably seen some pictures with his smile. He had a smile that would light up a skyscraper,” Sydney Schanberg.
Lieh Haoy, Dith.
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Angkor Photography Festival Contest
Check out the awesome set of images from the Angkor Photography Festival competition on flickr. My favorites include this, this and this. Sorry no images, I need to figure out a way to post images from flickr onto the blog. p.s. Just upgraded my Mac OS to 10.4.11 and the new Safari is looking good but it is screwing up my Wordpress!
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Angkor Photography Festival
The third annual Angkor Photography Festival will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from the 17 to 28 of November this year.
From their site:
The festival brings together well-known and passionate photographers from across the world in a spirit of creativity and sharing. It showcases exhibitions and outdoor projections about Asia by renowned artists and photojournalists, [...]
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Le Popil Gallery
Le Popil Gallery is a gallery opened by a French photographer, Stéphane Janin, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It showcases works by Cambodian and overseas photographers. You can view works by John Vink, Vandy Rattana and Mak Remissa on the gallery’s website.
Popil PhotoGallery
#126 St 19
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Can’t believe I actually missed the place during my visit [...]
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Vandy Rattana
Soosday! Vandy Rattana is a young Cambodian photographer/law student who has exhibited at Noorderlicht Photofest 2006. He belongs to Visual Art Open, an art collective, which aims to expose contemporary Cambodian artists to the world.
© Vandy Rattana
© Vandy Rattana
© Vandy Rattana
In Self-Portrait, Vandy does not appear in any of the photographs himself. Instead, he provides [...]
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Angkor Photography Workshop 09